Meaning not yet researched.
Zayden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,657 in 2025. Its best rank was #184 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #184 in 2016; #214 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Zayden in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#214 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #184.
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Zayden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,657 boys in 2025. Peak: #184 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 2,232 (2014).
In 2025, 1,657 US boys were named Zayden, making it the 214th most common boys’ name of the year, down 12 places from #202 in 2024. That is 90 fewer than the 1,747 boys named Zayden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #184, reached in 2016. The most boys given the name in a single year was 2,232, in 2014. For comparison, it was #193 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zayden in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2000 with 11 babies. In all, 32,439 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 18,690 babies named Zayden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 19,723 US boys were named Zayden; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 2,147. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,031 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zayden ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #61 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Zaiden (11,594 babies since 1880), Zaden (2,293 babies since 1880), Zaidyn (1,703 babies since 1880) and Zaedyn (813 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zaydan, Zaydin and Zaeden 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: Zaydan (695), Zaydin (608), Zaeden (512), Zaidan (459), Zaydon (403), Zadyn (395), Zaydyn (322), Zaiyden (141), Zadin (93), Zaydenn (90), Zaidin (87), Zaidon (73), and more.
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 Zayden 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 6 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 28 | #61 | #80 |
| Rhode Island | 10 | #123 | — |
| Hawaii | 9 | #125 | #90 |
| Delaware | 8 | #140 | — |
| Louisiana | 33 | #157 | #95 |
| Missouri | 44 | #161 | #168 |
| West Virginia | 12 | #167 | #91 |
| Mississippi | 19 | #172 | #115 |
| Oklahoma | 28 | #178 | #109 |
| Maryland | 34 | #182 | #249 |
| Texas | 203 | #185 | #187 |
| Nevada | 17 | #186 | #176 |
| Tennessee | 50 | #187 | #116 |
| Arkansas | 20 | #188 | #132 |
| Pennsylvania | 69 | #188 | #204 |
| Arizona | 47 | #188 | #194 |
| Alabama | 31 | #190 | #117 |
| Colorado | 37 | #190 | #138 |
| Kentucky | 29 | #198 | #137 |
| South Carolina | 29 | #200 | #159 |
| Ohio | 62 | #211 | #123 |
| Georgia | 59 | #211 | #164 |
| South Dakota | 7 | #220 | — |
| Michigan | 45 | #224 | #184 |
| Florida | 94 | #227 | #204 |
| New Hampshire | 6 | #229 | — |
| Illinois | 51 | #236 | #210 |
| North Carolina | 53 | #237 | #173 |
| California | 156 | #239 | #313 |
| Oregon | 18 | #246 | #289 |
| Utah | 22 | #247 | #208 |
| Minnesota | 25 | #249 | #291 |
| Indiana | 33 | #253 | #146 |
| Idaho | 11 | #255 | #205 |
| Massachusetts | 24 | #258 | #239 |
| Wisconsin | 23 | #261 | #245 |
| North Dakota | 5 | #264 | #201 |
| Virginia | 32 | #275 | #210 |
| Connecticut | 12 | #280 | #204 |
| Nebraska | 9 | #292 | #266 |
| New Jersey | 30 | #301 | #318 |
| New York | 61 | #306 | #316 |
| Iowa | 13 | #309 | #147 |
| Washington | 24 | #320 | #224 |
| Kansas | 11 | #351 | #154 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,449 | 1,657 | #214 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,668 | 1,747 | #202 |
| 2023 | 6 | #15,168 | 1,906 | #191 |
| 2022 | — | — | 2,022 | #187 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,626 | 1,891 | #204 |
| 2020 | 9 | #11,071 | 2,104 | #185 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,339 | 2,028 | #194 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,799 | 2,147 | #185 |
| 2017 | 7 | #14,098 | 2,081 | #189 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,387 | 2,140 | #184 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,713 | 2,142 | #193 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,475 | 2,232 | #188 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,227 | 2,122 | #192 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,706 | 1,562 | #228 |
| 2011 | 10 | #11,170 | 1,194 | #292 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,932 | 928 | #339 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,884 | 745 | #399 |
| 2008 | 12 | #10,075 | 566 | #488 |
| 2007 | — | — | 432 | #590 |
| 2006 | 5 | #20,026 | 224 | #884 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,489 | 129 | #1,232 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,803 | 112 | #1,327 |
| 2003 | — | — | 71 | #1,738 |
| 2002 | — | — | 36 | #2,683 |
| 2001 | — | — | 17 | #4,671 |
| 2000 | — | — | 11 | #6,313 |
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).