Zayin
Zayin was given to 18 boys in 2025, #5,389 among boys’ names; 242 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zayin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zayin?
#5,389 among boys’ names, 2025
Zayin rose from #8,724 in 2015 to #5,389 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.7 to 10.5 per million.
18 babies in 2025, the peak
Zayin peaked in 2025, when 18 boys were given it, #5,389 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 15 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,389 | 10.5 |
| 2024 | 15 | #6,189 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,914 | 9.4 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,814 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,572 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 10 | #8,049 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,804 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,801 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,535 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 10 | #8,136 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #8,724 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 10 | #8,117 | 5.2 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,696 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 6 | #12,261 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 6 | #12,202 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,679 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 6 | #12,528 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,256 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 5 | #14,006 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,624 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,521 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,561 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,645 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 5 | #12,285 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zayin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zayin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zayin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zayin, and how old are they?
An estimated 240 Americans named Zayin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 186 people named Zayin (34 women and girls, 152 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 160 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 28,144 babies since 1880, Zayin is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 2,279 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Zayin
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 Zayin and names like it
- Compare Zayin and ZaynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zayin alive today were born 2013-2025.
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