Zaelyn
#3,750 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zaelyn has been given to 736 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #3,750 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 34 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 54% boys, 46% girls all-time.
Babies named Zaelyn, 2025
1 in 111,000
Zaelyn over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Zaelyn over time
In 2025, Zaelyn went to 32% girls and 68% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Zaelyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 111,000
- 30 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 56,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,750
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 76,598 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zaelyn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zaelyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zaelyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zaelyn was born before 2017 — so the typical Zaelyn is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 40.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 400
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 40.8% of all recorded uses (163).
Is Zaelyn rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −62
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +3,731
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,917
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.31×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 88.2%
- Peak was 2021 (34)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 53.6% average annual change
Spellings of Zaelyn
Zaelyn is not the most common spelling — Zayn is, with 24.2% against Zaelyn's 0.74%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Zaelyn is used
Across 1910–2025, Zaelyn was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 663,298 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in —
- 2Tennessee1 in —
- 3Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Zaelyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Zaelyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Zaelyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zaelyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.