Zihan
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- zee-HAHN
- Origin
- Chinese
- US rank, 2025
- #8,239 for boys
Zihan is a boys' name of Chinese origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
What does Zihan mean?
Chinese: Mandarin
A Mandarin given name whose meaning depends on which characters are used to write it.
Is Zihan a girl's or a boy's name?
Zihan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zihan in the UK?
No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2015, with 6 boys.
Zihan in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | #4,346 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,279 |
| 2022 | 5 | #3,639 |
| 2021 | 3 | #4,989 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 3 | #4,959 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 6 | #3,149 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,063 |
| 2013 | 3 | #4,884 |
| 2012 | 3 | #4,999 |
| 2011 | 3 | #4,837 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 1 | #5,377 |
How popular is Zihan in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,239th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 190,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Zihan, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2016, with 9 boys. It first appears in the records in 2010.
2025 had more boys named Zihan than any year since 2017.
Half of all the boys named Zihan in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zihan in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,232 |
| 2022 | 7 | #9,815 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 6 | #10,797 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,136 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,141 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,080 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,267 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,280 |
| 2010 | 6 | #10,759 |
Names like Zihan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad, Zayaan, Musa, Zayan, Zayd, Zayyan, Abdullah, Mustafa, Ibrahim, Ahmed, Azaan, Abdulrahman
Names related to Zihan
More Chinese names
Lian, Jia, Mei, Tai, Tian, Jun, Mulan, Yi, Tao, San, Jian, Han, Mian, Bao, Xia, Lin
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Zihan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zihan, updated 20 October 2026.