Zhen is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
Recently, the name Zhen has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Zhen. That means that a boy named Zhen is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Zhen.
Meeting a man or boy named Zhen is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Zhen can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Zhen. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Zhen living in one state or another. (If your name is Zhen and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Zhen is in New York, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in New York, only 0.00004% of all male residents are called Zhen – that’s just one in 2,553,220! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 5 men going by that name. So, if your name is Zhen, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Z is quite rare as a first letter for given names: only 2.1% of all common first names in the US begin with Z. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.
With four letters, the name Zhen is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 2.1% of all first names begin with a Z, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average.
If your name is Zhen and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Zhen, you can simply say:
Zebra
Hat
Elephant
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Zhen
Zhen
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Z
H
E
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
Z
H
E
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Zhen sounds like this:
