Zailan
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zailan has been given to 19 babies in the U.S. since 2011. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2011, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Zailan, 2024
1 in 669,000
Zailan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Zailan?
Zailan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 669,000
- 5 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,412 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zailan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zailan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zailans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zailan was born before 2023 — so the typical Zailan is around 2 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 63.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 19
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 63.2% of all recorded uses (12).
Is Zailan 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2011 (7)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.6% average annual change
Spellings of Zailan
Zailan is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 49.8% against Zailan'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.
Zailan around the world
Where Zailan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia2009–2009#708in 2009
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Zailan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zailan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zailan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.