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Zayaan

#2,228 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Zayan

Zayaan has been given to 630 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #2,228 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 64 recorded.

Babies named Zayaan, 2025

1 in 51,800

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zayaan: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Zayan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zayaan means

Zayaan is a alternate transcription of Zayan.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Zayaan → Zayan. The family’s meaning is “beautiful”, recorded in the naming reference for Zayan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zayan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 630 boys were recorded with the name Zayaan between 2004 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 64 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,228 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,417 in 2020 to #2,228 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,735 in 2015 to #2,228 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.

How common is Zayaan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 51,800
64 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 26,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,228
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
35,906 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zayaan 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 35,906 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zayaan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zayaans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zayaan was born before 2019 — so the typical Zayaan is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
49.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
630
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 49.4% of all recorded uses (311).

Is Zayaan 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
+296
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+189
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,507
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (64)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,228
2025

Spellings of Zayaan

Zayaan is not the most common spelling — Zayden is, with 23.0% against Zayaan's 0.45%.

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 Zayaan is used

Across 1910–2025, Zayaan was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 284,074 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —
  7. 7Virginia1 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. Zayaan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zayaan around the world

Where Zayaan 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
    2001–2025
    #255
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2012–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • France
    2014–2025
    #1,739
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #1,331
    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.

Zayaan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,228
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 189
Best rank ever
#2,228
2025
Peak year
2025
64 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
630
Count in 2025
64

Names similar to Zayaan

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

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Sibling names for Zayaan

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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