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How popular is “Zion” in the USA?

Number of people named “Zion” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Zion” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Zion” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Zion” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Zion” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Zion” by birth year

This chart shows how “Zion” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1917 6 0.00000299 6 -100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 -100%
1974 12 0.000003947 12 -100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 -100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 -100%
1978 9 0.000002836 9 -100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 -100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 -100%
1981 10 0.000002891 10 -100%
1982 11 0.000003136 11 -100%
1983 10 0.000002887 10 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%
1985 14 0.000003923 5 9 -29%
1987 13 0.000003605 13 -100%
1988 12 0.000003248 12 -100%
1989 15 0.000003902 6 9 -20%
1990 9 0.000002277 9 -100%
1991 18 0.000004621 18 -100%
1992 39 0.000010153 8 31 -59%
1993 32 0.000008487 5 27 -69%
1994 48 0.000012911 11 37 -54%
1995 50 0.000013653 10 40 -60%
1996 81 0.000022209 20 61 -51%
1997 92 0.000025374 22 70 -52%
1998 285 0.000077483 43 242 -70%
1999 1237 0.000334879 167 1070 -73%
2000 1160 0.000306886 156 1004 -73%
2001 1010 0.000269809 143 867 -72%
2002 953 0.000254929 125 828 -74%
2003 1016 0.000267205 137 879 -73%
2004 1220 0.000319295 212 1008 -65%
2005 1368 0.000355801 248 1120 -64%
2006 1639 0.000414288 337 1302 -59%
2007 2077 0.000519551 524 1553 -50%
2008 2035 0.000517724 434 1601 -57%
2009 1867 0.000488721 394 1473 -58%
2010 1942 0.00052547 414 1528 -57%
2011 1928 0.000527094 472 1456 -51%
2012 1887 0.000515945 354 1533 -62%
2013 1858 0.000509646 328 1530 -65%
2014 1782 0.000480793 298 1484 -67%
2015 2002 0.000540948 309 1693 -69%
2016 2147 0.000585221 298 1849 -72%
2017 2264 0.000633075 287 1977 -75%
2018 2430 0.000691147 248 2182 -80%
2019 2755 0.000793735 204 2551 -85%
2020 2720 0.000814231 186 2534 -86%
2021 2916 0.000860698 149 2767 -90%
2022 2769 0.000818472 139 2630 -90%
2023 3014 0.000910245 131 2883 -91%
2024 2463 0.000739973 104 2359 -92%

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