# Zi (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/zi/  
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 and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 132 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 65 / 67 (51% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 497, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 7 | 13,511 |
| 2002 | 6 | 15,422 |
| 2004 | 5 | 18,818 |
| 2005 | 12 | 9,446 |
| 2006 | 9 | 12,413 |
| 2007 | 7 | 15,471 |
| 2009 | 6 | 17,276 |
| 2012 | 5 | 19,503 |
| 2013 | 5 | 19,248 |
| 2017 | 5 | 18,420 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 10 | 7,051 |
| 2004 | 5 | 13,217 |
| 2005 | 9 | 8,295 |
| 2006 | 8 | 9,583 |
| 2007 | 9 | 8,908 |
| 2013 | 5 | 14,055 |
| 2014 | 7 | 10,706 |
| 2015 | 6 | 12,078 |
| 2016 | 6 | 12,171 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 11 | 1,983 |
| 2007 | 11 | 2,085 |
| 2008 | 34 | 937 |
| 2009 | 26 | 1,171 |
| 2010 | 28 | 1,150 |
| 2011 | 19 | 1,545 |
| 2012 | 22 | 1,428 |
| 2013 | 18 | 1,639 |
| 2014 | 16 | 1,798 |
| 2015 | 12 | 2,195 |
| 2016 | 17 | 1,749 |
| 2017 | 8 | 2,925 |
| 2019 | 4 | 4,686 |
| 2020 | 4 | 4,535 |
| 2022 | 3 | 5,669 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 23 | 1,053 |
| 2008 | 19 | 1,242 |
| 2009 | 20 | 1,218 |
| 2010 | 35 | 832 |
| 2011 | 22 | 1,158 |
| 2012 | 22 | 1,191 |
| 2013 | 13 | 1,706 |
| 2014 | 20 | 1,281 |
| 2015 | 10 | 2,150 |
| 2016 | 15 | 1,627 |
| 2017 | 7 | 2,734 |
| 2018 | 7 | 2,693 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |

## People named Zi

- Yan Zi, Chinese tennis player
- Yang Zi, Chinese actress
- Zi Yu, Chinese singer and actor

## 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.