Zane

maleStatistical record

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

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

Zane: Recorded since 1987, it reached #70 in 2000, and it stood at #676 in 2025.

6registrars recorded it
79times a registrar ranked it
39years from first to last
#70highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2016–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2016	#5785
2020	#4535
2021	#3961
2022	#3970
2023	#4056
2024	#2115

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #382 among boys in England and Wales, #382 among boys in Scotland, #655 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 6 national registrars across 6 regions, 1987–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1987
First recorded at #100 among boys in New Zealand in 1987 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New Zealand · Boys
Highest recorded1987–2002
Highest recorded position: #70 among boys in New Zealand, in 2000 (recorded 1987–2002).
New Zealand · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #676 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Zane appears in 6 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 29 ranked years and 2,818 births registered; the earliest is New Zealand · Boys, from 1987.

Zane across 6 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.

Zane'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 · Boys	#680 (1996)	#233 (2011)	#382 (2024)	29 of 29	2,818 (1996–2024)	208 (2011)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#403 (2005)	#394 (2017)	#676 (2025)	18 of 21	94 (2005–2025)	9 (2017)
New Zealand · Boys	#100 (1987)	#70 (2000)	#87 (2002)	12 of 16	761 (1987–2002)	77 (1990)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#328 (2008)	#328 (2008)	#348 (2023)	7 of 16	23 (2008–2023)	4 (2008)
England and Wales · Girls	#5785 (2016)	#2115 (2024)	#2115 (2024)	6 of 9	35 (2016–2024)	13 (2024)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#93 (2001)	#88 (2005)	#96 (2008)	6 of 8	606 (2001–2008)	109 (2005)

Zane by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Zane in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	112	4 of 10	28
2000s	950	10 of 10	95
2010sbusiest	1,263	10 of 10	126
2020s	493	5 of 10	99

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 126 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2011 and 2012, when recorded births fell by 54, from 208 to 154.

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

Zane appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1987 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #70 in New Zealand in 2000.

Zane'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	#2115	13	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#382	109	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4056	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#472	85	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3970	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#420	100	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#401	107	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#4535	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#436	92	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#388	111	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#440	94	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#443	95	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#435	96	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#423	97	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#341	132	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#355	115	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#297	154	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#233	208	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#283	161	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#273	161	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#242	180	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#287	137	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#282	127	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#370	85	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#417	66	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#537	43	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#426	53	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#428	50	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#436	48	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#507	39	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#738	22	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#600	28	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#680	23	High	Verified
2008	New South Wales, Australia	male	#96	107	Insufficient	Not yet available
2006	New South Wales, Australia	male	#95	105	Insufficient	Not yet available
2005	New South Wales, Australia	male	#88	109	Insufficient	Not yet available
2004	New South Wales, Australia	male	#91	100	Insufficient	Not yet available
2002	New South Wales, Australia	male	#96	93	Insufficient	Not yet available
2001	New South Wales, Australia	male	#93	92	Insufficient	Not yet available
2002	New Zealand	male	#87	58	High	Verified
2001	New Zealand	male	#83	64	High	Verified
2000	New Zealand	male	#70	77	High	Verified
1998	New Zealand	male	#89	56	High	Verified
1997	New Zealand	male	#96	52	High	Verified
1994	New Zealand	male	#80	71	High	Verified
1993	New Zealand	male	#89	62	High	Verified
1992	New Zealand	male	#92	63	High	Verified
1991	New Zealand	male	#83	68	High	Verified
1990	New Zealand	male	#77	77	High	Verified
1989	New Zealand	male	#85	65	High	Verified
1987	New Zealand	male	#100	48	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#348	4	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#414	3	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#387	3	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	male	#390	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#328	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#655	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#396	9	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#407	9	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#414	8	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#637	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#506	6	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#635	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#394	9	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#601	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#615	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#550	5	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#718	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#490	6	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#698	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#629	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#493	4	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#403	5	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#382	9	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 6 registrars between 1987 and 2025, ranked in 37 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #70, first reached in 2000.

It held a top-100 place in 16 years, 6 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 208 births, registered in England and Wales in 2011.

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.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 37 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 6 registrars, 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.

August · #71, 39y
Maxwell · #71, 40y
Matteo · #68, 38y
Leonardo · #66, 40y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Zuzanna · #70, 33y
Elliott · #71, 34y
Lucie · #71, 31y
Candice · #72, 35y

Zane was ranked #70 in New Zealand · Boys in 2000. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Zane 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 Zane without appearing here.

Zane moved ahead of

Hayden Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4056 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2115 and #5891.
Teddy Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4056 and #2689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2115 and #5891.
Cameron Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4056 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2115 and #4843.
Denise Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4056 and #3598 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2115 and #4843.

Moved ahead of Zane

Brodie Compare
In 2011 they stood at #490 and #730 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2012 that had become #718 and #430.
Roman Compare
In 2006 they stood at #493 and #596 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2007 that had become #629 and #404.
Jonas Compare
In 2024 they stood at #396 and #770 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2025 that had become #676 and #468.
Jesse Compare
In 2008 they stood at #328 and #378 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2009 that had become #390 and #247.

Moved the opposite way to Zane

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zane went from #680 to #382 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zane went from #680 to #382 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zane went from #680 to #382 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zane went from #680 to #382 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Zane

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zane went from #680 to #382 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zane went from #680 to #382 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zane went from #680 to #382 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zane went from #680 to #382 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

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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.

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1987 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #70 in New Zealand in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Zane

Zane at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Zane across 6 official records

Zane by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Zane appears in

Popularity data

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Zane at a glance

Zane across 6 official records

Zane by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Zane appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Zane

Zane and the names beside it

Zane moved ahead of

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