Given name & surname
Zi
“a flourishing young woman”
Zi is used as a given name and a surname. One Chinese interpretation is “a flourishing young woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Chinese interpretation is “a flourishing young woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Chinese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2001. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Zi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 132
- 65 boys · 67 girls
- Most popular year
- 2005
- 21 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 girls is 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 12 in 2005. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,324 as a first name in 2020; 516 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.
Zi’s family of names
In Greek usage, Zi as a surname is a transliteration of Ζη. In Greek usage, Zi as a surname is a transliteration of Ζι.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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People named Zi
- Yan ZiChinese tennis playerborn 1984
- Zi YuChinese singer and actorborn 2002
- Zi FaámeluUkrainian singer and songwriterborn 1990
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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