Given name & surname
Zildjian
Zildjian is a surname from Armenian. It is used in English and Tagalog.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1996. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Zildjian through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 31
- 31 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 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 2010. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 2007.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Zildjian’s family of names
In Filipino usage, Zildjian has a related form in ZILDJAN.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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