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Zyien vs Zyion

American parents have registered 1,597 Zyions since 1880, against 72 Zyiens. Zyion is still ahead, with 48 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zyien against Zyion, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zyien Zyion

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

Zyion has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1999 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2009, when Zyien had 22 and Zyion had 68.

Side by side

  Zyien Zyion
Total US births 721,597
Most in one year 22111
Babies in 2025 under 548
Estimated living today 701,600
Median age today 1510
Peak year 20092011
Best rank 5,334th boys1,620th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,676th
First recorded 20091999
Girls / boys 12 / 60194 / 1,403

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 Zyiens alive today are over 15; half the Zyions are over 10. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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