Zion

maleStatistical record

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

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

Zion: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #55 in 2022, and it stood at #252 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
86times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#55highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2000–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2000	#3912
2001	#3262
2003	#3099
2004	#2112
2005	#2682
2006	#3116
2007	#2085
2008	#2292
2009	#2759
2010	#2392
2011	#4049
2012	#5876
2013	#4050
2014	#2862
2015	#2496
2016	#2547
2017	#1995
2018	#2499
2019	#1940
2020	#1939
2021	#2073
2022	#1556
2023	#1325
2024	#1302

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: #155 among boys in England and Wales, #252 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #278 among boys in Northern Ireland, #290 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2357 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2009–2023
Highest recorded position: #55 among boys in New Zealand, in 2022 (recorded 2009–2023).
New Zealand · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #252 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Zion appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 3,141 births with the name.

Zion across 5 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.

Zion'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	#2357 (1996)	#150 (2023)	#155 (2024)	29 of 29	3,141 (1996–2024)	354 (2023)
England and Wales · Girls	#3912 (2000)	#1302 (2024)	#1302 (2024)	24 of 25	247 (2000–2024)	25 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#472 (2008)	#235 (2023)	#252 (2025)	15 of 18	127 (2008–2025)	19 (2023)
New Zealand · Boys	#89 (2009)	#55 (2022)	#64 (2023)	9 of 15	531 (2009–2023)	76 (2022)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#319 (2018)	#278 (2024)	#278 (2024)	6 of 7	27 (2018–2024)	6 (2024)

Zion 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 Zion in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	37	4 of 10	9
2000s	389	10 of 10	39
2010s	1,179	10 of 10	118
2020sbusiest	1,536	5 of 10	307

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 307 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2019 and 2020, when recorded births rose by 61, from 211 to 272.

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

Zion 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 5 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #55 in New Zealand in 2022.

Zion'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	#1302	25	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#155	332	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1325	24	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#150	354	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1556	19	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#167	305	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2073	13	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#199	273	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1939	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#192	272	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1940	14	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#238	211	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#295	165	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1995	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#308	162	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2547	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#339	139	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2496	10	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#461	88	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2862	8	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#419	97	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#451	87	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#429	92	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#580	60	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2392	10	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#461	78	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2759	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#563	59	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2292	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#589	55	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2085	11	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#603	49	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#574	51	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2682	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#615	43	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2112	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#667	36	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#833	24	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#950	18	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#654	28	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#691	26	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#809	20	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1367	9	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified
2023	New Zealand	male	#64	65	High	Verified
2022	New Zealand	male	#55	76	High	Verified
2021	New Zealand	male	#84	57	High	Verified
2020	New Zealand	male	#90	55	High	Verified
2019	New Zealand	male	#81	61	High	Verified
2016	New Zealand	male	#96	54	High	Verified
2012	New Zealand	male	#96	50	High	Verified
2011	New Zealand	male	#91	54	High	Verified
2009	New Zealand	male	#89	59	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#278	6	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#352	4	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#326	5	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#392	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#365	4	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#319	5	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#252	18	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#252	17	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#235	19	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#509	6	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#390	9	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#342	12	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#370	10	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#749	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#547	5	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#448	7	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#554	5	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#616	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#720	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#701	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#472	6	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#290	13	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 5 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #55, first reached in 2022.

It held a top-100 place in 9 years, 5 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 354 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

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.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 28 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

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 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.

Elodie · #55, 30y
Ezekiel · #54, 30y
Lainey · #56, 29y
Tia · #53, 31y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Abby · #55, 33y
Aoibhe · #55, 31y
Elodie · #55, 30y
Ebony · #56, 32y

Zion was ranked #55 in New Zealand · Boys in 2022. 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.

Zion 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 Zion without appearing here.

Zion moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2499 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1940 and #5591.
Finley Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2862 and #2862 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2496 and #5730.
Jayden Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4050 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2499 and #5666.
Helene Compare
In 2013 they stood at #5876 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2862 and #5691.

Moved ahead of Zion

Blake Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2759 and #3936 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #4049 and #2893.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1995 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2499 and #1436.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1939 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2073 and #1286.
Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1940 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1939 and #1313.

Moved the opposite way to Zion

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zion went from #2357 to #155 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zion went from #2357 to #155 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zion went from #2357 to #155 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alexander Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zion went from #2357 to #155 while Alexander went from #14 to #36.

Moved the same way as Zion

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zion went from #2357 to #155 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zion went from #2357 to #155 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zion went from #2357 to #155 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zion went from #2357 to #155 and Archie from #192 to #10.

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.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #55 in New Zealand in 2022. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Zion

Zion at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Zion across 5 official records

Zion by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Zion appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Zion and the names beside it

Zion moved ahead of

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Zion at a glance

Zion across 5 official records

Zion by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Zion appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Zion

Zion and the names beside it

Zion moved ahead of

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