Zaylee
Zaylee was given to 286 girls in 2025, #919 among girls’ names; 5,450 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,420 Americans named Zaylee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zaylee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zaylee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zaylee is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
Modern coinage; compare Zayden, Kaylee, Jaylee.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zaylee?
#919 among girls’ names, 2025
Zaylee rose from #984 in 2015 to #919 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.15 to 0.18 per 1,000.
511 babies in 2018, the peak
Zaylee peaked in 2018, when 511 girls were given it, #597 among girls’ names. The 286 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 286 | #919 | 0.18 |
| 2024 | 354 | #796 | 0.22 |
| 2023 | 331 | #831 | 0.21 |
| 2022 | 412 | #713 | 0.25 |
| 2021 | 417 | #694 | 0.25 |
| 2020 | 434 | #663 | 0.27 |
| 2019 | 383 | #740 | 0.23 |
| 2018 | 511 | #597 | 0.30 |
| 2017 | 408 | #706 | 0.24 |
| 2016 | 351 | #817 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 275 | #984 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 184 | #1,300 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 179 | #1,318 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 161 | #1,424 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 162 | #1,414 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 142 | #1,565 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 135 | #1,659 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 99 | #2,077 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,540 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,976 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,640 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,202 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,661 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,577 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,949 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,626 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zaylee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zaylee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zaylee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zaylee, and how old are they?
5,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,450 Americans ever recorded as Zaylee. The median Zaylee alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 2,651 people named Zaylee (2,644 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,305 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 917 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,500 |
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 Zaylee born?
The states with the most babies named Zaylee are Texas, California and Tennessee, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 46 | #673 | 1.6× |
| California | 22 | #1,184 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 17 | #478 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,240 | 0.6× |
| New York | 11 | #1,311 | 0.4× |
| Oklahoma | 11 | #397 | 1.9× |
| Arkansas | 11 | #300 | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 9 | #862 | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 8 | #812 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,129 | 0.7× |
Where Zaylee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zaylee is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 2000 it was given 1.9 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 girls’ 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 Zaylee 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 13,273 babies since 1880, Zaylee is the most given (41% of them). In 2025 it was given to 286 of their 724 babies (40%), 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 Zaylee
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 Zaylee and names like it
- Compare Zaylee and ZaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZaylee peaked in 2018.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zaylee since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Zaylee: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Zaylee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zaylee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.