Boys' name · since 2018

Zeyn

Since 2018, U.S. Social Security records show 43 babies named Zeyn, peaking in 2024. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.

#23,288 of 45,481
all-time among boys
#9,587 of 13,930
2025 SSA year
43
born since 2018
2020s
peak decade

Zeyn currently ranks #9587 among boys' names in America, with 43 babies recorded since 2018.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Zeyn has been recorded 43 times among boys since 2018, currently ranked #9587 nationally and more common than 31% of boys, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2018 to 2025.

  • #23,288 of 45,481 all-time among boys
  • #9,587 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
  • 43 born since 2018
  • 2020s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Zeyn ranks #23,288 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #9,587 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 43 born since 2018, peaking in the 2020s.

#23,288 of 45,481
all-time among boys
#9,587 of 13,930
2025 SSA year
43
born since 2018
2020s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%31.1%
Zeyn vs. every other boys name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Zeyn's 43 recorded births place it above 48.79% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Zeyn compares

43 15th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Zeyn's all-time total is 88% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Zeyn Median boys name (Takari) #1 boys name (Liam)
All-time total births 43 369 358,536
Peak-year births 11 34 22,252

Zeyn's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Splitting Zeyn's full recorded timeline at 2023, 60% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 40% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2019, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2024 peak of 11 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.

Zeyn popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (2024)
11
Annual births at peak, across 8 years of records
4681012 201820192020202320242025 8

Zeyn by decade

2020s is the heaviest window (31 births, 72% of the file).

2020s was Zeyn's strongest decade.

31 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 72% of all-time use.

Zeyn births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2020s at 31 births (72% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Zeyn?
43 babies have been named Zeyn since 2018. All-time, it sits at #23,288 of 45,481 boys' names by recorded births. In 2025, it ranks #9,587 of 13,930 among boys. The peak year was 2024 with 11 births.
Where does Zeyn sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Zeyn ranks #23,288 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #9,587 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Zeyn most popular?
Zeyn was most popular in the 2020s decade with 31 total births. The single peak year was 2024.
How long has the name Zeyn been used?
Zeyn has been recorded in Social Security data since 2018, spanning 8 years of data through 2025.
What names are similar to Zeyn?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Zeyad, Zeyd, Zeyden, Zeydan. These share a common prefix and are also used for boys.

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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span

Two nationwide peer axes for Zeyn: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.

Data Sources

Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.

Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2018–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Zeyn draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.