Meaning not yet researched.
Zayan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 221 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,017 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Zayan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,017 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Zayan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 221 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,017 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 221 (2025).
In 2025, 221 US boys were named Zayan, making it the 1,017th most common boys’ name of the year, up 115 places from #1,132 in 2024. That is 33 more than the 188 boys named Zayan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,017, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 221. For comparison, it was #2,053 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zayan in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1999 with 6 babies. In all, 2,275 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,138 babies named Zayan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,572 US boys were named Zayan; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 221. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,729 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zayan ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #501 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zayn (13,221 babies since 1880), Zayne (13,067 babies since 1880), Zain (10,243 babies since 1880) and Zayaan (630 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Saiyan, Saayan and Zahaan 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: Saiyan (135), Saayan (30), Zahaan (22), Zaiyaan (7), Sayaan (6), Sayhan (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 Zayan 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 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 33 | #501 | #947 |
| New Jersey | 11 | #654 | — |
| Virginia | 11 | #669 | #1,136 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #717 | — |
| Texas | 32 | #844 | #1,643 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #896 | — |
| Michigan | 8 | #902 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #920 | — |
| Illinois | 9 | #934 | — |
| California | 23 | #987 | #2,937 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,002 | — |
| Florida | 14 | #1,008 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,158 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,274 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,553 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 221 | #1,017 |
| 2024 | — | — | 188 | #1,132 |
| 2023 | — | — | 189 | #1,122 |
| 2022 | — | — | 194 | #1,108 |
| 2021 | — | — | 165 | #1,194 |
| 2020 | — | — | 181 | #1,100 |
| 2019 | — | — | 151 | #1,250 |
| 2018 | — | — | 105 | #1,590 |
| 2017 | — | — | 106 | #1,553 |
| 2016 | — | — | 72 | #2,011 |
| 2015 | — | — | 70 | #2,053 |
| 2014 | — | — | 94 | #1,655 |
| 2013 | — | — | 93 | #1,646 |
| 2012 | — | — | 78 | #1,880 |
| 2011 | — | — | 80 | #1,811 |
| 2010 | — | — | 68 | #2,035 |
| 2009 | — | — | 40 | #2,990 |
| 2008 | — | — | 47 | #2,682 |
| 2007 | — | — | 29 | #3,686 |
| 2006 | — | — | 34 | #3,225 |
| 2005 | — | — | 18 | #4,820 |
| 2004 | — | — | 9 | #8,141 |
| 2003 | — | — | 12 | #6,253 |
| 2002 | — | — | 10 | #7,040 |
| 2001 | — | — | 7 | #9,235 |
| 2000 | — | — | 8 | #8,202 |
| 1999 | — | — | 6 | #9,899 |
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).