Zay
#3,654 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zay has been given to 308 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #3,654 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 46 recorded.
Babies named Zay, 2025
1 in 107,000
Zay 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Zay?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 107,000
- 31 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 55,100
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,654
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 74,127 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zay 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 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zays were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zay was born before 2021 — so the typical Zay is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 59.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 302
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 59.9% of all recorded uses (181).
Is Zay 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
- −822
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,572
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +10,372
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 6.20×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 67.4%
- Peak was 2024 (46)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 51.0% average annual change
Where Zay is used
Across 1910–2025, Zay was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 565,430 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Texas1 in —
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. Zay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Zay around the world
Where Zay 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 & Wales2021–2024#5,120in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Zay by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Zay
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zay
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.