Zailee is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Zaylee, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Zailee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 41 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,533 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,533 in 2022; #3,710 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zailee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,710 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #3,533.
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Zailee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 41 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,533 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 45 (2022).
In 2025, 41 US girls were named Zailee, making it the 3,710th most common girls’ name of the year, up 179 places from #3,889 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 39 girls named Zailee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,533, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 45. For comparison, it was #5,452 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zailee in 20 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2005 with 5 babies. In all, 519 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 245 babies named Zailee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 365 US girls were named Zailee; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,202 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Zaylee (5,450 babies since 1880) and Zailey (1,131 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Zailee in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,710 | — | — |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,889 | — | — |
| 2023 | 42 | #3,707 | — | — |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,533 | — | — |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,410 | — | — |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,074 | — | — |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,542 | — | — |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,915 | — | — |
| 2017 | 27 | #5,043 | — | — |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,245 | — | — |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,452 | — | — |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,976 | — | — |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,881 | — | — |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,791 | — | — |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,604 | — | — |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,768 | — | — |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,444 | — | — |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,956 | — | — |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,593 | — | — |
| 2005 | 5 | #19,154 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).