Zana

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Zana: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Zana: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #1,364, and it stood at #2,771 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
37times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#1364highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1364
1997	#2411
1998	#3142
1999	#3900
2000	#2416
2001	#3262
2002	#2540
2003	#3099
2004	#2802
2005	#2970
2006	#4157
2007	#4294
2008	#3005
2009	#3422
2010	#4688
2011	#2893
2012	#3681
2013	#4739
2014	#4684
2016	#3214
2017	#2502
2018	#4684
2019	#5591
2020	#3447
2021	#3192
2022	#3970
2023	#4709
2024	#2771

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 28 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1364 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #1364 among girls in England and Wales, in 1996 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2771 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Zana appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 161 births with the name.

Zana across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Zana's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1364 (1996)	#1364 (1996)	#2771 (2024)	28 of 29	161 (1996–2024)	13 (1996)
England and Wales · Boys	#4333 (2007)	#3004 (2015)	#3688 (2024)	9 of 18	38 (2007–2024)	6 (2015)

Zana by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Zana in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	26	4 of 10	7
2000s	54	10 of 10	5
2010sbusiest	50	9 of 10	6
2020s	31	5 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 6 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Zana appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1364 in England and Wales in 1996.

Zana's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2771	9	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#3688	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3970	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3192	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3447	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3334	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#4702	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2502	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3004	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3681	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2893	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3422	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3227	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3005	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2970	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2540	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1364	13	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,364, first reached in 1996.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 13 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aaishah · #1365, 29y
Benson · #1363, 27y
Dov · #1363, 27y
Farheen · #1365, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Wallis · #1364, 16y
Aaishah · #1365, 29y
Arion · #1363, 21y
Benson · #1363, 27y

Zana and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Zana without appearing here.

Zana moved ahead of

Geraldine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4709 and #4709 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2771 and #5891.
Kirsten Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4709 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2771 and #5891.
Tyler Compare
In 2020 they stood at #5591 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3192 and #5581.
Lene Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4688 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #3681 and #5876.

Moved ahead of Zana

Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4739 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4684 and #1628.
Rory Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2502 and #2706 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #4684 and #1977.
Rune Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4023 and #4810 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #4702 and #2104.
Arlo Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2502 and #3583 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #4684 and #2340.

Moved the opposite way to Zana

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zana went from #1364 to #2771 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zana went from #1364 to #2771 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zana went from #1364 to #2771 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zana went from #1364 to #2771 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Zana

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zana went from #1364 to #2771 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zana went from #1364 to #2771 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zana went from #1364 to #2771 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zana went from #1364 to #2771 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1364 in England and Wales in 1996. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Zana

Zana at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Zana across 2 official records

Zana by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Zana appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Zana and the names beside it

Zana moved ahead of

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Zana at a glance

Zana across 2 official records

Zana by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Zana appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Zana and the names beside it

Zana moved ahead of

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