Zailey
#3,774 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zailey has been given to 1,131 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #3,774 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 93 recorded.
Babies named Zailey, 2025
1 in 82,900
Zailey 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Zailey?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 82,900
- 40 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 40,200
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,774
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 57,449 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zailey 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 57,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zailey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zaileys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zailey was born before 2017 — so the typical Zailey is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 56.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 99.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,131
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 56.2% of all recorded uses (636).
Is Zailey 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
- −762
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,334
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −243
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.89×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 43.0%
- Peak was 2018 (93)
- Years since peak
- 7
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.2% average annual change
Spellings of Zailey
Zailey is not the most common spelling — Hailey is, with 16.3% against Zailey's 0.10%.
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 Zailey is used
Across 2016–2025, Zailey was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 28,382 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 16,667
- 2Texas1 in 16,667
- 3Louisiana1 in 25,000
- 4California1 in 33,333
- 5Georgia1 in 33,333
- 6Kentucky1 in 33,333
- 7Florida1 in 50,000
- 8North Carolina1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.
Zailey around the world
Where Zailey 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.
- Canada2019–2024#3,457in 2024
- South Australia1999–1999#729in 1999
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Zailey by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zailey
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zailey
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.