Name meaning & stats
Zen
Zen. 3,313 US babies since 1940, peak 2022.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
In US birth records
Peak year: 2022
3,313 US babies were named Zen between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Zen (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 75% of the family
- Zen 75%
- Zenon 22%
- Senan 3%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2022)