Zayn
Zayn was given to 1,381 boys in 2025, #253 among boys’ names; 13,221 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,100 Americans named Zayn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 9.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zayn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zayn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zayn is “a male given name from Arabic.” Its etymology gives the sense “beauty” (زَيْن).
From Arabic زَيْن (zayn, “beauty”).
/zeɪn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zayn?
#253 among boys’ names, 2025
Zayn rose from #643 in 2015 to #253 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.21 to 0.81 per 1,000.
1,433 babies in 2024, the peak
Zayn peaked in 2024, when 1,433 babies were given it (1,426 boys, #249 among boys’ names). The 1,386 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 97% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,381 | #253 | 0.81 |
| 2024 | 1,426 | #249 | 0.83 |
| 2023 | 1,417 | #246 | 0.83 |
| 2022 | 1,262 | #276 | 0.72 |
| 2021 | 1,226 | #282 | 0.70 |
| 2020 | 1,058 | #312 | 0.61 |
| 2019 | 986 | #340 | 0.55 |
| 2018 | 999 | #337 | 0.55 |
| 2017 | 993 | #344 | 0.54 |
| 2016 | 749 | #420 | 0.39 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 407 | #643 | 0.21 |
| 2014 | 272 | #834 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 233 | #896 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 133 | #1,303 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 49 | #2,545 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 46 | #2,680 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 55 | #2,378 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 47 | #2,682 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 46 | #2,683 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 39 | #2,930 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 39 | #2,798 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 41 | #2,638 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 42 | #2,502 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 39 | #2,551 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 20 | #4,114 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,915 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,584 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,642 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,239 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,525 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,500 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,357 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #10,155 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zayn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zayn has been given almost only to boys: 103 girls in 33 years of records.
Girls and boys named Zayn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zayn, and how old are they?
13,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 13,221 Americans ever recorded as Zayn. The median Zayn alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 9.
The 2020 Census counted 4,747 people named Zayn (88 women and girls, 4,659 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,625 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 38 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 672 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12,400 |
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 Zayn born?
The states with the most babies named Zayn are California, Texas and Florida, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 223 | #179 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 135 | #288 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 112 | #195 | 1.1× |
| New York | 111 | #175 | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 67 | #146 | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 60 | #168 | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 57 | #210 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 54 | #171 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 45 | #280 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | #311 | 0.9× |
Where Zayn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zayn is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1993 it was given 1.6 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 Zayn 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, Zayn is the most given (47% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,386 of their 2,279 babies (61%), 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 Zayn
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 Zayn and names like it
- Compare Zayn and ZainBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZayn peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zayn since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Zayn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Zayn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zayn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.