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Zyien vs Zyir

American parents have registered 811 Zyirs since 1880, against 72 Zyiens. Zyir is still ahead, with 55 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zyien against Zyir, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zyien Zyir

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 20 years in which either name was published, Zyir for 19 years and Zyien for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Zyien Zyir
Total US births 72811
Most in one year 2273
Babies in 2025 under 555
Estimated living today 70810
Median age today 156
Peak year 20092024
Best rank 5,334th boys2,057th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,451st
First recorded 20092004
Girls / boys 12 / 600 / 811

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 Zyirs are over 6. That is 9 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 Zyir.