Zayden
Zayden was given to 1,657 boys in 2025, #214 among boys’ names; 32,439 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 32,200 Americans named Zayden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zayden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zayden mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zayden is “a male given name originating as a coinage.”
American 21st-century coinage, rhyming with Jayden, Brayden, Aidan, etc.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zayden?
#214 among boys’ names, 2025
Zayden fell from #193 in 2015 to #214 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 1.1 to 1.0 per 1,000.
2,246 babies in 2014, the peak
Zayden peaked in 2014, when 2,246 babies were given it (2,232 boys, #188 among boys’ names). The 1,668 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 74% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,657 | #214 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 1,747 | #202 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 1,906 | #191 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 2,022 | #187 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 1,891 | #204 | 1.1 |
| 2020 | 2,104 | #185 | 1.2 |
| 2019 | 2,028 | #194 | 1.1 |
| 2018 | 2,147 | #185 | 1.2 |
| 2017 | 2,081 | #189 | 1.1 |
| 2016 | 2,140 | #184 | 1.1 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,142 | #193 | 1.1 |
| 2014 | 2,232 | #188 | 1.2 |
| 2013 | 2,122 | #192 | 1.1 |
| 2012 | 1,562 | #228 | 0.82 |
| 2011 | 1,194 | #292 | 0.63 |
| 2010 | 928 | #339 | 0.48 |
| 2009 | 745 | #399 | 0.38 |
| 2008 | 566 | #488 | 0.28 |
| 2007 | 432 | #590 | 0.21 |
| 2006 | 224 | #884 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 129 | #1,231 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 112 | #1,325 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 71 | #1,735 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 36 | #2,679 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,665 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,305 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zayden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zayden has been given almost only to boys: 193 girls in 26 years of records.
Girls and boys named Zayden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zayden, and how old are they?
32,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 32,439 Americans ever recorded as Zayden. The median Zayden alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 16,862 people named Zayden (171 women and girls, 16,691 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 21,444 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,040 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 26,100 |
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 Zayden born?
The states with the most babies named Zayden are Texas, California and Florida, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 203 | #185 | 1.1× |
| California | 156 | #239 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 94 | #227 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 69 | #188 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 62 | #211 | 1.2× |
| New York | 61 | #306 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 59 | #211 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 53 | #237 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 51 | #236 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 50 | #187 | 1.2× |
Where Zayden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zayden is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 2000 it was given 2.2 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 Zayden 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 50,657 babies since 1880, Zayden is the most given (64% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,668 of their 2,393 babies (70%), again the 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 Zayden
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 Zayden and names like it
- Compare Zayden and ZaidenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZayden peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zayden since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Zayden: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Zayden.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zayden alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.