Zaiel
#1,346 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zaiel has been given to 197 babies in the U.S. since 2019. In 2025 it ranked #1,346 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 141 recorded.
Babies named Zaiel, 2025
1 in 23,500
Zaiel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Zaiel?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 23,500
- 141 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 12,100
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,346
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 16,298 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zaiel 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 16,298 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zaiel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zaiels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zaiel was born before 2025 — so the typical Zaiel is around 0 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 97.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 197
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 97.0% of all recorded uses (191).
Is Zaiel 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
- +4,303
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +10,638
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (141)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 180.2% average annual change
Spellings of Zaiel
Zaiel is not the most common spelling — Daniel is, with 79.9% against Zaiel's <0.01%.
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 Zaiel is used
Across 2016–2025, Zaiel was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 78,251 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Massachusetts1 in 20,000
- 2New Jersey1 in 50,000
- 3California1 in 100,000
- 4Florida1 in 100,000
- 5Georgia1 in 100,000
- 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 7New York1 in 100,000
- 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
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.
Zaiel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zaiel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zaiel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.