Zenon
About 1,276 American babies have been named Zenon since 1910, most of them around 1954. In 2025 it ranked 5,861st. About 870 Zenons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 31.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Zenon
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,276
- Estimated living today
- 870
- Median age today
- 31
- Peak year
- 1954
- Best rank
- 1,593rd
- Rank in 2025
- 5,861st
- First recorded
- 1910
How old the living Zenons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,276 babies given the name since 1910, about 870 are alive — 68 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1994 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
From Ancient Greek Ζήνων.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Zenons
- Zenon Grocholewski (1939–2020)Catholic cardinal
- Zenon Jaskuła (born 1962)Road racing cyclist
- Zenón Noriega Agüero (1900–1957)37th & 39th President of Peru
- Zenón Franco Ocampos (1956–2024)Paraguayan chess grandmaster
- Zenón de Somodevilla, 1st Marqués de la Ensenada (1702–1781)Spanish noble
- Zenon Licznerski (born 1954)Polish sprinter
- Zenón Díaz (1880–1948)Argentine Footballer
People named Zenon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Zenon is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Zenon is most concentrated in New York (4.4×), Texas (3.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1954
The most popular boys’ names the year Zenon peaked:
Zenon elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Zenon +1 spelling | 420 | 305th |
| Poland boys | Zenon | 151 birth registrations | 216th |
| England and Wales boys | Zenon | 103 | 2,324th |
| Belgium boys | Zenon | 5 | 1,363rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Zenon: rank by region
In 2009, Zenon was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Zenon | 857 | 5 |
In 2025, Zenon was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Zenon | 164 | 2 |
| Pomorskie | Zenon | 179 | 3 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Where Zenon lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 384 men called Zenon were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zamora | Zenon | 10 | 0.122 | 530 |
| Cáceres | Zenon | 21 | 0.109 | 580 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Zenon | 36 | 0.068 | 1,245 |
| Palmas, Las | Zenon | 33 | 0.057 | 1,437 |
| Ciudad Real | Zenon | 10 | 0.041 | 1,078 |
| Rioja, La | Zenon | 5 | 0.031 | 1,613 |
Listed in 19 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 33 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Zenon against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.