Name Awesome

Zaylee

#919 in 2025Girls' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Zaylee has been given to 5,450 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #919 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 511 recorded.

Babies named Zaylee, 2025

1 in 11,600

Zaylee over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zaylee: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

coinages

What Zaylee means

Zaylee is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Zaylee is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Zaylee is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,450 girls were recorded with the name Zaylee between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 511 in 2018; its best national rank was #597 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #663 in 2020 to #919 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #984 in 2015 to #919 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 Zaylee?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 11,600
286 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,620
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#919
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,036 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zaylee sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,036 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zaylee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zaylees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zaylee was born before 2018 — so the typical Zaylee is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,450
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.6% of all recorded uses (2,756).

Is Zaylee 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
−123
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−256
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+65
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.04×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.0%
Peak was 2018 (511)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#597
2018

Spellings of Zaylee

Zaylee is not the most common spelling — Kaylee is, with 16.8% against Zaylee's 0.65%.

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 Zaylee is used

Across 2016–2025, Zaylee was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 1,111 girls, against 1 in 3,813 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 20,000).

590 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 1,111
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 1,471
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 1,724
  4. 4Idaho1 in 1,961
  5. 5Kentucky1 in 2,000
  6. 6West Virginia1 in 2,128
  7. 7Colorado1 in 2,273
  8. 8Utah1 in 2,273

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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, Zaylee is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 60% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Zaylee around the world

Where Zaylee 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
    2019–2024
    #4,193
    in 2024
  • France
    2025–2025
    #3,858
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2024
    #1,968
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2008–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Zaylee by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#919
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 256
Best rank ever
#597
2018
Peak year
2018
511 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,450
Count in 2025
286

Names similar to Zaylee

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

ZaynabZaylaOakleeHadleeRayleeKynleeAdaleeMayleeEmaleeZaydaHarleeJayleeZaynaZaynahZaylieCayleeZaylahZayraKinleeBryleeSkyleeKinsleeRhyleeKailee

Names with a curve like Zaylee

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

KinsleeAdleyKhaleesiKarterNovaleeAriyaSaoirseNalaLennoxElliottAvalynnHarmoni

Sibling names for Zaylee

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

Explore around Zaylee

Top names of 2018, Zaylee's peak yearThe 2010s in fullOther names that peaked in 2018Girls' names starting with Z