Zain
Zain was given to 522 boys in 2025, #567 among boys’ names; 10,243 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,100 Americans named Zain and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zain by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zain?
#567 among boys’ names, 2025
Zain rose from #718 in 2015 to #567 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.18 to 0.31 per 1,000.
550 babies in 2019, the peak
Zain peaked in 2019, when 550 babies were given it (526 boys, #539 among boys’ names). The 530 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 96% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 522 | #567 | 0.31 |
| 2024 | 533 | #557 | 0.31 |
| 2023 | 532 | #551 | 0.31 |
| 2022 | 536 | #558 | 0.31 |
| 2021 | 476 | #587 | 0.27 |
| 2020 | 485 | #574 | 0.28 |
| 2019 | 526 | #539 | 0.29 |
| 2018 | 466 | #588 | 0.26 |
| 2017 | 399 | #650 | 0.22 |
| 2016 | 367 | #684 | 0.19 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 346 | #718 | 0.18 |
| 2014 | 373 | #679 | 0.19 |
| 2013 | 364 | #664 | 0.19 |
| 2012 | 330 | #717 | 0.17 |
| 2011 | 308 | #736 | 0.16 |
| 2010 | 279 | #787 | 0.15 |
| 2009 | 295 | #775 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 273 | #805 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 238 | #873 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 228 | #872 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 215 | #859 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 215 | #830 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 189 | #891 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 174 | #922 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 169 | #924 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 135 | #1,063 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 139 | #1,010 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 130 | #1,040 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 94 | #1,238 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 81 | #1,344 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 75 | #1,363 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 60 | #1,557 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 37 | #2,155 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 54 | #1,637 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 43 | #1,860 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 49 | #1,679 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 26 | #2,537 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 31 | #2,084 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 24 | #2,395 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 22 | #2,507 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,395 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,267 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,229 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,615 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,956 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,518 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,353 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,837 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,741 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zain a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 10,243 Americans recorded as Zain, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 girls and 522 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Zain: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zain, and how old are they?
10,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 10,243 Americans ever recorded as Zain. The median Zain alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 7,470 people named Zain (387 women and girls, 7,083 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,146 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 28 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 549 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,470 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,070 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Zain born?
The states with the most babies named Zain are California, New York and Texas, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 71 | #451 | 0.9× |
| New York | 66 | #287 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 51 | #611 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 33 | #333 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 24 | #680 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 23 | #391 | 1.3× |
| Minnesota | 23 | #274 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 22 | #381 | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 22 | #499 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 20 | #411 | 1.6× |
Where Zain is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zain is most over-represented in New York: since 1968 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Zain with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 27,265 babies since 1880, Zain is the second most given (38% of them). In 2025 it was given to 530 of their 2,201 babies (24%), again the second 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 Zain
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 Zain and names like it
- Compare Zain and ZaynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZain peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zain since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Zain.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zain alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.