Given name & surname
Zahn
Zahn is a surname from German, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Original GermanZehnle
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Zahn comes from German, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From German Zahn, from Middle High German zan, from Old High German zand, from Proto-West Germanic *tanþ, from Proto-Germanic *tanþs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts, built from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- + *-ónts.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1994. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Zahn through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 28
- 28 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2002
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2009. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 115 as a first name in 2020; 5,866 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Zahn’s family of names
In German usage, Zahn as a surname has a related form in ZEHNLE. In German usage, Zahn as a surname has a related form in Zähnle.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Zahn
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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