# Zenon (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/zenon/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Greek |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,276 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,276 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 103, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Spanish Zenón and French Zénon, from Ancient Greek Ζήνων (Zḗnōn).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 21 | 4,655 |
| 2012 | 12 | 7,042 |
| 2013 | 12 | 7,016 |
| 2014 | 15 | 5,992 |
| 2015 | 10 | 8,031 |
| 2016 | 16 | 5,785 |
| 2017 | 10 | 8,132 |
| 2018 | 11 | 7,612 |
| 2019 | 16 | 5,810 |
| 2020 | 15 | 5,974 |
| 2021 | 10 | 8,155 |
| 2022 | 13 | 6,822 |
| 2023 | 14 | 6,511 |
| 2024 | 19 | 5,235 |
| 2025 | 15 | 6,138 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | 3,332 |
| 2011 | 4 | 3,830 |
| 2012 | 4 | 3,987 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2014 | 8 | 2,459 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,079 |
| 2017 | 9 | 2,324 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3,959 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4,702 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3,990 |
| 2022 | 6 | 3,048 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,107 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,119 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,275 |

## People named Zenon

- Zenón Noriega Agüero, 37th & 39th President of Peru (1900-1957)
- Zenón Díaz, Argentine Footballer (1880–1948)
- Zenon de Souza Farias, Brazilian footballer
- Zenon Konopka, Canadian ice hockey player
- Zenon Caravella, Australian soccer player
- Zenon Pylyshyn, Canadian cognitive scientist and philosopher (1937–2022)
- Zeno of Sidon, Epicurean philosopher from the Phoenician city of Sidon (150-c. 75 BCE)
- Zeno of Tarsus, 3rd century BCE Greek Stoic philosopher
- Zeno of Caunus, ancient Greek public official and scribe

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.