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Zohaib vs Zohran

American parents have registered 523 Zohaibs since 1880, against 30 Zohrans. But in 2025 it was Zohran that was commoner, 30 babies to 16.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zohaib against Zohran, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zohaib Zohran

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 38 years in which either name was published, Zohaib for 37 years and Zohran for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Zohaib Zohran
Total US births 52330
Most in one year 2330
Babies in 2025 1630
Estimated living today 52030
Median age today 170
Peak year 20052025
Best rank 3,941st boys3,658th boys
Rank in 2025 5,608th3,658th
First recorded 19862025
Girls / boys 0 / 5230 / 30

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Zohaibs alive today are over 17; half the Zohrans have not had a first birthday. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Zohaib Zohran
England and Wales 65129
France 1025

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Zohaib and Zohran.