Zaine
Zaine was given to 51 boys in 2025, #2,602 among boys’ names; 2,016 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,990 Americans named Zaine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zaine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zaine?
#2,602 among boys’ names, 2025
Zaine fell from #1,554 in 2015 to #2,602 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 54.8 to 29.9 per million.
105 babies in 2015, the peak
Zaine peaked in 2015, when 105 boys were given it, #1,554 among boys’ names. The 51 births of 2025 are 49% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #2,602 | 29.9 |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,235 | 37.7 |
| 2023 | 83 | #1,908 | 48.5 |
| 2022 | 78 | #1,979 | 44.7 |
| 2021 | 72 | #2,058 | 41.2 |
| 2020 | 60 | #2,290 | 34.8 |
| 2019 | 84 | #1,822 | 46.8 |
| 2018 | 75 | #1,979 | 41.3 |
| 2017 | 82 | #1,828 | 44.3 |
| 2016 | 102 | #1,604 | 53.7 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 105 | #1,554 | 54.8 |
| 2014 | 98 | #1,606 | 51.0 |
| 2013 | 82 | #1,780 | 43.3 |
| 2012 | 82 | #1,814 | 43.2 |
| 2011 | 70 | #1,986 | 36.9 |
| 2010 | 75 | #1,911 | 39.1 |
| 2009 | 96 | #1,652 | 48.4 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,086 | 32.8 |
| 2007 | 73 | #1,950 | 35.2 |
| 2006 | 51 | #2,446 | 24.8 |
| 2005 | 46 | #2,487 | 23.0 |
| 2004 | 36 | #2,879 | 18.1 |
| 2003 | 38 | #2,668 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,150 | 25.8 |
| 2001 | 46 | #2,243 | 23.7 |
| 2000 | 37 | #2,572 | 18.8 |
| 1999 | 30 | #2,859 | 15.6 |
| 1998 | 35 | #2,502 | 18.3 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,674 | 15.9 |
| 1996 | 17 | #4,011 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,684 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,793 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,438 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 9 | #6,117 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #7,253 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #8,098 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 10 | #5,153 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,416 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zaine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zaine has been given almost only to boys: 16 girls in 38 years of records.
Girls and boys named Zaine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zaine, and how old are they?
1,990 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,016 Americans ever recorded as Zaine. The median Zaine alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,487 people named Zaine (87 women and girls, 1,400 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,606 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 97 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 865 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,030 |
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 Zaine born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 6 | #1,825 | 0.7× |
Where Zaine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zaine is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1988 it was given 1.4 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 Zaine with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Zaine?
Zaine is a less common spelling of Zayne: SSA has recorded 2,016 Zaine and 13,067 Zayne since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 72,595 babies since 1880, Zaine is the third most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 51 of their 1,753 babies (2.9%), 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 Zaine
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 Zaine and names like it
- Compare Zaine and ZayneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZaine peaked in 2015.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zaine since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Zaine.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zaine alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.