Zion is a name of Hebrew origin, which means ‘a sign’ or ‘a monument’. It is also used to refer to the City of David in Jerusalem and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which was considered a sacred site in the Jewish religion.
Zion is a first name for boys, occasionally also given to girls.
The name Zion isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Zion ranks 184. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 12 were named Zion. In the entire USA, approximately 43,236 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Zion. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Zion is a name of Hebrew origin, which means ‘a sign’ or ‘a monument’. It is also used to refer to the City of David in Jerusalem and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which was considered a sacred site in the Jewish religion.
Zion is also... a well-known fictional city in the 'Matrix' films. They are famous for their numerous allusions to philosophies and religions.
Zion is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Zion cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #127 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2021. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Zion, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Zion seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Zion was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
2,736 babies were named Zion in 2022 - that's 1 in 62,087 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Zion ranked 135 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
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 boys' names: only 2.4% of all common boys' names in the US begin with Z. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With four letters, the name Zion 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 2.4% of all boys' names begin with a Z, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the names that begin with Z, Zachary is the most common.
If your name is Zion 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 Zion, you can simply say:
Zebra
Igloo
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Zion
Zion
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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.
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. Zion sounds like this: