Zion: name meaning, origin & popularity
- Meaning
- “highest point, sign”
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Say it
- ZY-ən · 2 syllables
- Used for
- Boys (86% of all uses)
From Hebrew Tsiyon, the biblical name of a hill in Jerusalem and, by extension, Jerusalem itself. Its exact original sense is uncertain.
How popular is Zion?
Babies named Zion in 20242,463
2024 rank#151 boys
Peak year2023
Total US babies since 188051,273
Zion is rising: use over the last five years is 1.6× what it was a decade earlier.
Names like Zion
Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.
Zion questions
What does the name Zion mean?
Zion means "highest point, sign". It comes from Hebrew. From Hebrew Tsiyon, the biblical name of a hill in Jerusalem and, by extension, Jerusalem itself. Its exact original sense is uncertain.
Is Zion a boy or girl name?
Zion is mainly a boy's name in US records (87% of uses since 1880).
How popular is Zion?
2,463 US babies were named Zion in 2024. Its peak year was 2023.
How do you pronounce Zion?
Zion is usually pronounced ZY-ən.
Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.