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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Zan

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#9,696

down −1,942 places

2025 births

8

down −3 births

All-time births

659

1% of them in 2025

More common than

85%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2002
20 births
Best rank
#2,579
in 1950
First recorded
1916
#3,894 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1983
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
76 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 200220#4,186Peak
  2. 200620#4,673
  3. 200319#4,421
  4. 200416#5,243
  5. 200915#6,089

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #2,579 in 1950 · peak births 20 in 2002

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 85% boys■ 15% girls

659 boys · 114 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Zan has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.