Zayne
Zayne was given to 644 boys in 2025, #473 among boys’ names; 13,067 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,900 Americans named Zayne 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 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zayne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zayne mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zayne is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Variant of Zane.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zayne?
#473 among boys’ names, 2025
Zayne rose from #497 in 2015 to #473 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.31 to 0.38 per 1,000.
877 babies in 2021, the peak
Zayne peaked in 2021, when 877 babies were given it (866 boys, #376 among boys’ names). The 651 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 74% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 644 | #473 | 0.38 |
| 2024 | 708 | #447 | 0.41 |
| 2023 | 720 | #433 | 0.42 |
| 2022 | 781 | #413 | 0.45 |
| 2021 | 866 | #376 | 0.50 |
| 2020 | 781 | #394 | 0.45 |
| 2019 | 767 | #406 | 0.43 |
| 2018 | 791 | #403 | 0.44 |
| 2017 | 853 | #384 | 0.46 |
| 2016 | 696 | #447 | 0.37 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 589 | #497 | 0.31 |
| 2014 | 564 | #501 | 0.29 |
| 2013 | 589 | #471 | 0.31 |
| 2012 | 429 | #595 | 0.23 |
| 2011 | 330 | #700 | 0.17 |
| 2010 | 326 | #716 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 298 | #767 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 269 | #820 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 201 | #980 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 196 | #953 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 169 | #1,009 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 134 | #1,169 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 159 | #999 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 164 | #968 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 127 | #1,115 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 123 | #1,134 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 114 | #1,155 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 94 | #1,284 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 85 | #1,329 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 66 | #1,529 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 51 | #1,752 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 43 | #1,971 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 37 | #2,156 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 22 | #3,098 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,222 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,159 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,517 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #7,258 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,959 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,814 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,570 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,378 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zayne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 13,067 Americans recorded as Zayne, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 girls and 644 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Zayne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zayne, and how old are they?
12,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 13,067 Americans ever recorded as Zayne. The median Zayne alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 7,338 people named Zayne (192 women and girls, 7,146 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,636 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 279 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,260 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 9,400 |
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 Zayne born?
The states with the most babies named Zayne are Texas, California and Florida, with 29% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 77 | #438 | 1.0× |
| California | 57 | #542 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 42 | #450 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 33 | #348 | 1.4× |
| New York | 30 | #544 | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 26 | #307 | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 23 | #392 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 19 | #525 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 19 | #538 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 19 | #428 | 0.4× |
Where Zayne is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zayne is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1982 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 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 Zayne 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 72,595 babies since 1880, Zayne is the second most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 651 of their 1,753 babies (37%), again the second 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 Zayne
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 Zayne and names like it
- Compare Zayne and ZaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZayne peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zayne since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Zayne: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Zayne.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zayne alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.