Meaning not yet researched.
Zain: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 522 in 2025. Its best rank was #539 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #539 in 2019; #567 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Zain in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#567 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #539.
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Zain: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 522 boys in 2025. Peak: #539 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 536 (2022).
In 2025, 522 US boys were named Zain, making it the 567th most common boys’ name of the year, down 10 places from #557 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 533 boys named Zain in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #539, reached in 2019. The most boys given the name in a single year was 536, in 2022. For comparison, it was #718 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zain in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 5 babies. In all, 10,243 US babies have been given the name, 3.2% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,920 babies named Zain.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,842 US boys were named Zain; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 536. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,272 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zain ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #274 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zane (57,228 babies since 1880), Zayn (13,221 babies since 1880), Zayne (13,067 babies since 1880) and San (2,502 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zahian and Saion are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zahian (6), Saion (5).
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 Zain in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 23 | #274 | #629 |
| New York | 66 | #287 | #449 |
| Illinois | 33 | #333 | #506 |
| Virginia | 22 | #381 | #464 |
| Michigan | 23 | #391 | #507 |
| New Jersey | 20 | #411 | #539 |
| California | 71 | #451 | #696 |
| Washington | 16 | #473 | #753 |
| Ohio | 22 | #499 | #685 |
| Oregon | 7 | #527 | #632 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #572 | — |
| Texas | 51 | #611 | #761 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #613 | — |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #617 | #710 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #661 | #1,034 |
| Iowa | 5 | #661 | — |
| Florida | 24 | #680 | #718 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #694 | — |
| Georgia | 14 | #708 | — |
| Arizona | 9 | #719 | #879 |
| Colorado | 7 | #754 | — |
| Tennessee | 9 | #774 | — |
| Maryland | 6 | #807 | #416 |
| Alabama | 5 | #879 | #705 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,026 | #757 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,911 | 522 | #567 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,932 | 533 | #557 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,419 | 532 | #551 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,519 | 536 | #558 |
| 2021 | 9 | #11,118 | 476 | #587 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,936 | 485 | #574 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,445 | 526 | #539 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,237 | 466 | #588 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,669 | 399 | #650 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,179 | 367 | #684 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,999 | 346 | #718 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,201 | 373 | #679 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,455 | 364 | #664 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,699 | 330 | #717 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,526 | 308 | #736 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,687 | 279 | #787 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,440 | 295 | #775 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,796 | 273 | #805 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,446 | 238 | #873 |
| 2006 | 5 | #20,009 | 228 | #872 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,986 | 215 | #859 |
| 2004 | — | — | 215 | #831 |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,390 | 189 | #892 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,813 | 174 | #923 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,491 | 169 | #925 |
| 2000 | — | — | 135 | #1,065 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,368 | 139 | #1,012 |
| 1998 | — | — | 130 | #1,043 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,828 | 94 | #1,241 |
| 1996 | — | — | 81 | #1,346 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,376 | 75 | #1,368 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,741 | 60 | #1,562 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,785 | 37 | #2,160 |
| 1992 | — | — | 54 | #1,642 |
| 1991 | — | — | 43 | #1,866 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,946 | 49 | #1,684 |
| 1989 | — | — | 26 | #2,543 |
| 1988 | — | — | 31 | #2,089 |
| 1987 | — | — | 24 | #2,399 |
| 1986 | — | — | 22 | #2,509 |
| 1985 | — | — | 14 | #3,398 |
| 1984 | — | — | 14 | #3,269 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #6,233 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,617 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,958 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,520 |
| 1979 | — | — | 13 | #3,354 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,839 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,743 |
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).