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Zayan

#1,017 in 2025Boys' name

Beautiful

Zayan has been given to 2,275 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #1,017 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 221 recorded.

Babies named Zayan, 2025

1 in 15,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zayan: meaning, origin, and history

Beautiful

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zayan means

Zayan means “beautiful”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,275 boys were recorded with the name Zayan between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 221 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,017 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,100 in 2020 to #1,017 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,053 in 2015 to #1,017 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 Zayan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 15,000
221 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 7,730
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,017
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,399 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zayan 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,399 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zayan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zayans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zayan was born before 2020 — so the typical Zayan is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,275
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (1,138).

Is Zayan 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
+115
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+83
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,036
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.16×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (221)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,017
2025

Spellings of Zayan

Zayan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 47.5% against Zayan's 0.11%.

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 Zayan is used

Across 2016–2025, Zayan was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 2,857 boys, against 1 in 9,428 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

135 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 2,857
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 4,545
  3. 3Virginia1 in 5,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 5,882
  5. 5Maryland1 in 6,250
  6. 6Connecticut1 in 8,333
  7. 7Texas1 in 10,000
  8. 8California1 in 11,111

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.

Zayan around the world

Where Zayan 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
    1998–2025
    #209
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2025
    #278
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2024–2024
    #339
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2015–2025
    #509
    in 2025
  • France
    2000–2025
    #295
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #517
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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 Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Zayan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,017
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 83
Best rank ever
#1,017
2025
Peak year
2025
221 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,275
Count in 2025
221

Names similar to Zayan

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

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Names with a curve like Zayan

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

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Sibling names for Zayan

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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