Zihan

maleStatistical record

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

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

Zihan: Recorded since 2007, its highest recorded position is #629, and it stood at #4,270 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
13times a registrar ranked it
18years from first to last
#629highest recorded position
3groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2007–2008

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2007	#4294
2008	#5545

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 boys in England and Wales in 10 of the 14 years from 2011 to 2024.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2007–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2007
First recorded at #4294 among girls in England and Wales in 2007 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4270 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Zihan appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 10 ranked years and 39 births registered; the earliest is England and Wales · Girls, from 2007.

Zihan 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.

Zihan'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	#4647 (2011)	#3004 (2015)	#4270 (2024)	10 of 14	39 (2011–2024)	6 (2015)
England and Wales · Girls	#4294 (2007)	#4294 (2007)	#5545 (2008)	2 of 2	7 (2007–2008)	4 (2007)

Zihan 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 2 regions, from 2007 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #629 in Republic of Ireland in 2007.

Zihan'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	male	#4270	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3523	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3004	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#629	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 2007 and 2024, ranked in 12 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #629, first reached in 2007.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 6 births, registered in England and Wales in 2015.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

Every registrar that records it began in the same year, 2007.

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.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
5 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
4separate stretches the record falls into4 separate stretches →
2 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period2 to 3 years missing →
#4,270position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
0 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itWithin 2 years →
6births registered in its largest year, 2015Under 25 births →

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 2 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.

Balazs · #629, 13y
Brandyn · #629, 11y
Grantas · #629, 10y
Maksims · #629, 11y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Balazs · #629, 13y
Grantas · #629, 10y
Maksims · #629, 11y
Ze · #629, 14y

Zihan was ranked #629 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2007. 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.

Zihan 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 Zihan without appearing here.

Zihan moved ahead of

Garry Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3449 and #3048 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3523 and #4991.
Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4789 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3523 and #4991.
Ole Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4789 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #3449 and #4789.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3523 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #4270 and #5119.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2007 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #629 in Republic of Ireland in 2007. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Zihan

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Zihan across 2 official records

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Zihan across 2 official records

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Zihan

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