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Zain

#567 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Zayn

Zain has been given to 10,243 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #567 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 536 recorded.

Babies named Zain, 2025

1 in 6,350

Zain over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zain: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Zayn

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zain means

Zain is a alternate transcription of Zayn.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Zain → Zayn. The family’s meaning is “beauty”, recorded in English with the source elements zayn.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zayn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,918 boys were recorded with the name Zain between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 536 in 2022; its best national rank was #539 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #574 in 2020 to #567 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #718 in 2015 to #567 in 2025.

In the United States, 325 girls were recorded with the name Zain between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2019; its best national rank was #5,441 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,931 in 2020 to #11,907 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,995 in 2015 to #11,907 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 Zain?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 6,350
522 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 3,270
0.03% of boys
Rank, 2025
#567
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,403 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zain 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 1002%
School of 5008%

Put another way: gather 4,403 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zain. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zains were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zain was born before 2015 — so the typical Zain is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,918
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.9% of all recorded uses (3,758).

Is Zain 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
−10
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+7
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+151
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.51×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
97.4%
Peak was 2022 (536)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#539
2019

Spellings of Zain

Zain is not the most common spelling — Ian is, with 21.9% against Zain's 0.84%.

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 Zain is used

Across 2016–2025, Zain was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 1,639 boys, against 1 in 3,240 across all states with data. It was least common in Nevada (1 in 20,000).

561 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 1,639
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 1,695
  3. 3New York1 in 1,786
  4. 4Illinois1 in 1,961
  5. 5Michigan1 in 1,961
  6. 6Virginia1 in 1,961
  7. 7Maryland1 in 2,857
  8. 8Connecticut1 in 2,941

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.

Geographically, Zain is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 64% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Zain around the world

Where Zain 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
    1996–2025
    #209
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1992–2025
    #367
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2012–2023
    #395
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2008–2025
    #286
    in 2025
  • France
    2001–2025
    #670
    in 2025
  • Norway
    2024–2025
    #448
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #204
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1977–2013
    #499
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Zain

People whose public names include Zain, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Zain by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#567
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 7
Best rank ever
#539
2019
Peak year
2022
536 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,918
Count in 2025
522

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,907
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,976
Best rank ever
#5,441
2019
Peak year
2019
24 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
325
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Zain

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

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Names with a curve like Zain

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Zain, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Zain

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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