Zaelyn
Zaelyn is given to both girls and boys: 14 girls and 30 boys were given it in 2025 (#7,871 among girls’ names and #3,750 among boys’, #6,189 among all names counting both); 736 Americans have been recorded with it since 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zaelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zaelyn?
#3,750 among boys’ names, 2025
Zaelyn rose from #6,667 in 2015 to #3,750 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.8 to 17.6 per million.
60 babies in 2021, the peak
Zaelyn peaked in 2021, when 60 babies were given it (34 boys, #3,421 among boys’ names). The 44 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 73% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,871 | 30 | #3,750 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,536 | 31 | #3,688 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,377 | 30 | #3,797 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,694 | 27 | #4,083 |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,083 | 34 | #3,421 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,308 | 11 | #7,481 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,440 | 16 | #5,801 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,305 | 21 | #4,730 |
| 2017 | 21 | #6,032 | 17 | #5,517 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,976 | 15 | #6,043 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,819 | 13 | #6,667 |
| 2014 | 15 | #8,040 | 14 | #6,298 |
| 2013 | 22 | #6,006 | 17 | #5,395 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,331 | 13 | #6,610 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,357 | 13 | #6,564 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,763 | 15 | #6,024 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,956 | 14 | #6,421 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,579 | 24 | #4,261 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,580 | 10 | #8,155 |
| 2006 | under 5 | 25 | #3,997 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 5 | #13,335 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 5 | #13,186 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Zaelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 736 Americans recorded as Zaelyn, 46% are girls and 54% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Zaelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zaelyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 730 Americans named Zaelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 14. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 383 people named Zaelyn (207 women and girls, 176 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 465 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,471 babies since 1880, Zaelyn is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 44 of their 429 babies (10%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zaelyn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Zaelyn and names like it
- Compare Zaelyn and ZaylenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZaelyn peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zaelyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Zaelyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zaelyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.