Primarily a boy's name · Unisex — 14% girls / 86% boys
Zion is a given name and surname derived from the ancient Canaanite hill fortress in Jerusalem called the City of David. It is less commonly spelled Sion, Tzion, Tsion, Tsiyon, Seyon, or Tsiyyon. In Hebrew Zion is one of the 70 Names of Jerusalem.
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In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Zion yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Zion has one of the most broken histories on this site: recorded in 1917, then nothing across the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, before resuming. Five decades absent, matching Oakley's gap almost exactly. It is now up 59% over ten years, at 2,359 births and rank 151, marginally below its 2023 records. Cumulative total 51,273. The two bearers are both athletes born this century — Zion Williamson, born 2000, and the goalkeeper Zion Suzuki — meaning they are products of the name's revival rather than its cause. As a biblical place-name rather than a person-name, Zion sits slightly apart from Malachi and Jonah, and its usage patterns look correspondingly different.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1917 | 6 | #3,980 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,876 |
| 1974 | 12 | #3,119 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,305 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,935 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,582 |
| 1978 | 9 | #4,155 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,841 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,246 |
| 1981 | 10 | #4,152 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,963 |
| 1983 | 10 | #4,137 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,311 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,697 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,730 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,159 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,614 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,819 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,461 |
| 1992 | 31 | #2,411 |
| 1993 | 27 | #2,696 |
| 1994 | 37 | #2,218 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,101 |
| 1996 | 61 | #1,615 |
| 1997 | 70 | #1,508 |
| 1998 | 242 | #695 |
| 1999 | 1,070 | #274 |
| 2000 | 1,004 | #300 |
| 2001 | 867 | #324 |
| 2002 | 828 | #333 |
| 2003 | 879 | #329 |
| 2004 | 1,008 | #311 |
| 2005 | 1,120 | #293 |
| 2006 | 1,302 | #265 |
| 2007 | 1,553 | #234 |
| 2008 | 1,601 | #230 |
| 2009 | 1,473 | #240 |
| 2010 | 1,528 | #230 |
| 2011 | 1,456 | #245 |
| 2012 | 1,533 | #235 |
| 2013 | 1,530 | #236 |
| 2014 | 1,484 | #254 |
| 2015 | 1,693 | #227 |
| 2016 | 1,849 | #213 |
| 2017 | 1,977 | #199 |
| 2018 | 2,182 | #181 |
| 2019 | 2,551 | #153 |
| 2020 | 2,534 | #144 |
| 2021 | 2,767 | #136 |
| 2022 | 2,630 | #143 |
| 2023 | 2,883 | #125 |
| 2024 | 2,359 | #151 |
