Zai — #3952 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Zai

The Social Security Administration has registered 227 babies named Zai between 2004 and 2024, spanning 21 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Zai currently holds the #3952 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 28 babies received it in a single year. Zai is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 65 additional births since 2001.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Zai performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 119 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Zai shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Zai in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Zai in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 227 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.