Zaylen
Zaylen was given to 202 boys in 2025, #1,072 among boys’ names; 2,669 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,650 Americans named Zaylen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 3 and 13.
Zaylen dropped 186 places in 2025, the #11 drop among the boys’ top 1,000 of 2024.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zaylen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zaylen?
#1,072 among boys’ names, 2025
Zaylen rose from #1,326 in 2015 to #1,072 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.07 to 0.12 per 1,000.
276 babies in 2024, the peak
Zaylen peaked in 2024, when 276 babies were given it (271 boys, #886 among boys’ names). The 208 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 75% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 202 | #1,072 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 271 | #886 | 0.16 |
| 2023 | 214 | #1,023 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 149 | #1,288 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 124 | #1,460 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 114 | #1,498 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 123 | #1,431 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 124 | #1,417 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 126 | #1,401 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 133 | #1,348 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 134 | #1,326 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 138 | #1,295 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 152 | #1,185 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 110 | #1,477 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 96 | #1,610 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 101 | #1,573 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 70 | #2,007 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 57 | #2,325 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 38 | #3,087 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 39 | #2,929 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,936 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 13 | #6,129 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,268 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 10 | #7,034 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,521 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #10,329 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zaylen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,669 Americans recorded as Zaylen, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls and 202 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Zaylen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zaylen, and how old are they?
2,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,669 Americans ever recorded as Zaylen. The median Zaylen alive today is 8 years old; half are between 3 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 1,223 people named Zaylen (69 women and girls, 1,154 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,588 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 | 601 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,050 |
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 Zaylen born?
The states with the most babies named Zaylen are Texas, Florida and California, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 24 | #1,010 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 15 | #957 | 0.9× |
| California | 14 | #1,363 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #871 | 1.8× |
| Ohio | 10 | #854 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 9 | #987 | 2.0× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,022 | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 7 | #684 | 2.5× |
| Mississippi | 7 | #469 | 2.5× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,039 | 1.9× |
Where Zaylen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zaylen is most over-represented in Alabama: since 2000 it was given 2.5 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 Zaylen 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 6,471 babies since 1880, Zaylen is the most given (41% of them). In 2025 it was given to 208 of their 429 babies (48%), 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 Zaylen
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 Zaylen and names like it
- Compare Zaylen and ZaylinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZaylen peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zaylen since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Zaylen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zaylen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.