Meaning not yet researched.
Zaylee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 286 in 2025. Its best rank was #597 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #597 in 2018; #919 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zaylee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#919 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #597.
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Zaylee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 286 girls in 2025. Peak: #597 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 511 (2018).
In 2025, 286 US girls were named Zaylee, making it the 919th most common girls’ name of the year, down 123 places from #796 in 2024. That is 68 fewer than the 354 girls named Zaylee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #597, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 511. For comparison, it was #984 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zaylee in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2000 with 5 babies. In all, 5,450 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,756 babies named Zaylee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,887 US girls were named Zaylee; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 511. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,620 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zaylee ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #300 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zailey (1,131 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zailee, Zayley and Zayli are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Zailee (519), Zayley (267), Zayli (226), Zalea (163), Zaylia (154), Zaylei (146), Zaelee (87), Zayleah (53), Zaylea (31), Zahlee (29), Zalee (6), Zaeley (5), 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 Zaylee in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 27 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 11 | #300 | — |
| Oklahoma | 11 | #397 | #470 |
| Idaho | 6 | #401 | — |
| Tennessee | 17 | #478 | #673 |
| Iowa | 6 | #563 | #591 |
| Utah | 7 | #604 | #338 |
| Nevada | 5 | #606 | — |
| Texas | 46 | #673 | #535 |
| Indiana | 8 | #812 | #679 |
| Alabama | 6 | #817 | #685 |
| Michigan | 9 | #862 | — |
| Arizona | 7 | #906 | #1,244 |
| Missouri | 6 | #922 | #1,121 |
| Maryland | 5 | #999 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #1,044 | #1,294 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,106 | #1,625 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,130 | — |
| California | 22 | #1,184 | #1,335 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,240 | #1,353 |
| New York | 11 | #1,311 | #1,955 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,374 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,433 | #983 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,632 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,785 | #890 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 286 | #919 | — | — |
| 2024 | 354 | #796 | — | — |
| 2023 | 331 | #831 | — | — |
| 2022 | 412 | #713 | — | — |
| 2021 | 417 | #694 | — | — |
| 2020 | 434 | #663 | — | — |
| 2019 | 383 | #740 | — | — |
| 2018 | 511 | #597 | — | — |
| 2017 | 408 | #706 | — | — |
| 2016 | 351 | #817 | — | — |
| 2015 | 275 | #984 | — | — |
| 2014 | 184 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 2013 | 179 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 2012 | 161 | #1,424 | — | — |
| 2011 | 162 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 2010 | 142 | #1,565 | — | — |
| 2009 | 135 | #1,659 | — | — |
| 2008 | 99 | #2,077 | — | — |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,540 | — | — |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,977 | — | — |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,644 | — | — |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,206 | — | — |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,666 | — | — |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,583 | — | — |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,956 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,634 | — | — |
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).