Zain — #555 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Zain

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,395 babies named Zain between 1968 and 2024, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Zain currently holds the #555 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 535 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Zain performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,758 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Zain shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,178 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Zain in 34 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Zain 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 9,395 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.