Zion
The 2025 national count puts Zion at #142, peaking as we speak. Its record runs from 1917 through a 2023 peak, 46,871 children in all.
Zion’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Zion, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Zion since 1917
Zion peaked in 2023 at #125; #142 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Zion is most common
Zion is most common in Hawaii: 0.48% of the state's recorded boys' names in 2025. Vermont (0.41%) and Alaska (0.35%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Zion
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Zayn
#253 in 2025
Zoey
#69 in 2025
Zoe
#31 in 2025 · Greek
Hayes
#162 in 2025
Blair
#169 in 2025
Jett
#169 in 2025
Freya
#176 in 2025
Max
#180 in 2025 · Latin
Browse: names starting with Z · all names
About Zion
Where does Zion rank right now?
The 2025 national count puts Zion at #142, peaking as we speak. The chart above draws the whole run since 1917, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
Does Zion have a meaning on record?
No recorded meaning in the references we are allowed to cite, Zion keeps its mystery, and we keep our sourcing rule.
Which names sit near Zion?
Nearest by the published recipe: Zayn, Zoey and Zoe. The sibling matcher scores every common American name against the ones you already have.
Get Zion’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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A printed picture book where Zion earns every letter of their own name, page by page. See the preview pages and hear when it is ready.
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