Meaning not yet researched.
Zayn: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,381 in 2025. Its best rank was #246 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #246 in 2023; #253 in 2025. About 99.6% of babies named Zayn in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#253 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #246.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Zayn: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,381 boys in 2025. Peak: #246 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 1,426 (2024).
In 2025, 1,381 US boys were named Zayn, making it the 253rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 4 places from #249 in 2024. That is 45 fewer than the 1,426 boys named Zayn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #246, reached in 2023. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,426, in 2024. For comparison, it was #643 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zayn in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 5 babies. In all, 13,221 US babies have been given the name, 0.8% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 7,823 babies named Zayn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 11,497 US boys were named Zayn; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 1,426. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,237 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zayn ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #146 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), Zayne (13,067 babies since 1880), Zain (10,243 babies since 1880) and San (2,502 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zayyan, Sayan and Zayon 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: Zayyan (472), Sayan (303), Zayon (288), Zayin (242), Zaion (125), Zaiyan (80), Zahan (74), Zayion (63), Sayon (56), Zaiyon (35), Zahin (32), Zahyan (19), 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 Zayn 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 13 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 67 | #146 | #397 |
| Michigan | 60 | #168 | #320 |
| Virginia | 54 | #171 | #495 |
| New York | 111 | #175 | #570 |
| California | 223 | #179 | #707 |
| Connecticut | 19 | #186 | #528 |
| Florida | 112 | #195 | #627 |
| Massachusetts | 31 | #206 | #825 |
| Illinois | 57 | #210 | #670 |
| North Dakota | 6 | #225 | — |
| Nevada | 14 | #229 | — |
| Minnesota | 25 | #250 | — |
| Arizona | 32 | #259 | #422 |
| Ohio | 45 | #280 | #620 |
| Texas | 135 | #288 | #555 |
| Maryland | 19 | #299 | — |
| Indiana | 27 | #302 | #896 |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | #311 | #553 |
| Wisconsin | 18 | #316 | — |
| Kentucky | 17 | #318 | — |
| Missouri | 21 | #325 | #731 |
| Louisiana | 16 | #336 | — |
| Georgia | 36 | #342 | #498 |
| Oregon | 12 | #350 | #633 |
| New Mexico | 6 | #359 | — |
| North Carolina | 32 | #364 | #758 |
| Tennessee | 19 | #429 | — |
| Utah | 11 | #440 | — |
| Colorado | 14 | #440 | — |
| Washington | 17 | #445 | #945 |
| Alabama | 12 | #449 | #707 |
| Kansas | 8 | #466 | — |
| South Carolina | 10 | #500 | #658 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #513 | — |
| Iowa | 6 | #569 | — |
| Mississippi | 5 | #616 | — |
| Arkansas | 5 | #635 | — |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #697 | #810 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,252 | 1,381 | #253 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,454 | 1,426 | #249 |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,177 | 1,417 | #246 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,227 | 1,262 | #276 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,961 | 1,226 | #282 |
| 2020 | 8 | #12,120 | 1,058 | #312 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,341 | 986 | #340 |
| 2018 | 5 | #18,104 | 999 | #337 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,771 | 993 | #344 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,310 | 749 | #420 |
| 2015 | 5 | #19,071 | 407 | #643 |
| 2014 | — | — | 272 | #834 |
| 2013 | — | — | 233 | #896 |
| 2012 | — | — | 133 | #1,303 |
| 2011 | — | — | 49 | #2,546 |
| 2010 | — | — | 46 | #2,681 |
| 2009 | — | — | 55 | #2,379 |
| 2008 | — | — | 47 | #2,683 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,609 | 46 | #2,683 |
| 2006 | — | — | 39 | #2,931 |
| 2005 | — | — | 39 | #2,802 |
| 2004 | — | — | 41 | #2,642 |
| 2003 | — | — | 42 | #2,506 |
| 2002 | — | — | 39 | #2,555 |
| 2001 | — | — | 20 | #4,120 |
| 2000 | — | — | 21 | #3,921 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,931 | 22 | #3,589 |
| 1998 | — | — | 15 | #4,647 |
| 1997 | — | — | 16 | #4,244 |
| 1996 | — | — | 11 | #5,532 |
| 1995 | — | — | 14 | #4,506 |
| 1994 | — | — | 9 | #6,363 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #10,161 |
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).