Zayan
Zayan was given to 221 boys in 2025, #1,017 among boys’ names; 2,275 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,260 Americans named Zayan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zayan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zayan?
#1,017 among boys’ names, 2025
Zayan rose from #2,053 in 2015 to #1,017 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.04 to 0.13 per 1,000.
221 babies in 2025, the peak
Zayan peaked in 2025, when 221 boys were given it, #1,017 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 188 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 221 | #1,017 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 188 | #1,132 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 189 | #1,122 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 194 | #1,108 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 165 | #1,194 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 181 | #1,100 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 151 | #1,250 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 105 | #1,590 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 106 | #1,553 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 72 | #2,011 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 70 | #2,053 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 94 | #1,655 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 93 | #1,645 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 78 | #1,879 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 80 | #1,810 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 68 | #2,034 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 40 | #2,989 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 47 | #2,681 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 29 | #3,684 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 34 | #3,223 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,815 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 9 | #8,135 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,246 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 10 | #7,033 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #9,228 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #8,194 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,892 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zayan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zayan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zayan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zayan, and how old are they?
2,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,275 Americans ever recorded as Zayan. The median Zayan alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 1,081 people named Zayan (28 women and girls, 1,053 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,173 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 441 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,820 |
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 Zayan born?
The states with the most babies named Zayan are New York, Texas and California, with 48% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 33 | #501 | 3.3× |
| Texas | 32 | #844 | 1.1× |
| California | 23 | #987 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 14 | #1,008 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 11 | #654 | 1.9× |
| Virginia | 11 | #669 | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 9 | #934 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,002 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 8 | #902 | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 7 | #717 | 0.2× |
Where Zayan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zayan is most over-represented in New York: since 1999 it was given 3.3 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 Zayan 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 28,144 babies since 1880, Zayan is the third most given (8.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 221 of their 2,279 babies (9.7%), 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 Zayan
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 Zayan and names like it
- Compare Zayan and ZaynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZayan peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zayan since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Zayan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zayan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.