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Zaim

#7,659 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Zaim has been given to 222 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #7,659 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Zaim, 2025

1 in 301,000

Zaim over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zaim: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zaim means

Zaim is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Zaim is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 222 boys were recorded with the name Zaim between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2024; its best national rank was #6,184 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,284 in 2020 to #7,659 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,722 in 2015 to #7,659 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Zaim?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,659
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zaim sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zaim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zaims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zaim was born before 2017 — so the typical Zaim is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
222
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.1% of all recorded uses (89).

Is Zaim 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
−1,475
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,375
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,063
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.22×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
73.3%
Peak was 2024 (15)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,184
2024

Spellings of Zaim

Zaim is not the most common spelling — Jim is, with 19.2% against Zaim's 0.03%.

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.

Zaim around the world

Where Zaim 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.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #1,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2024–2024
    #727
    in 2024
  • France
    1997–2025
    #662
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Zaim by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,659
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,375
Best rank ever
#6,184
2024
Peak year
2024
15 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
222
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Zaim

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Zaim

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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