Zaylen
#1,072 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zaylen has been given to 2,669 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #1,072 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 271 recorded.
Babies named Zaylen, 2025
1 in 16,400
Zaylen 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Zaylen?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 16,400
- 202 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 8,460
- 0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,072
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 11,377 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zaylen 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 11,377 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zaylen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zaylens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zaylen was born before 2018 — so the typical Zaylen is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 47.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 99.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,597
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 47.6% of all recorded uses (1,237).
Is Zaylen 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
- −186
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +426
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +254
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.51×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 74.5%
- Peak was 2024 (271)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.6% average annual change
Spellings of Zaylen
Zaylen is not the most common spelling — Allen is, with 21.3% against Zaylen's 0.20%.
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 Zaylen is used
Across 2016–2025, Zaylen was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 3,846 boys, against 1 in 12,298 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in 3,846
- 2Mississippi1 in 3,846
- 3Tennessee1 in 4,348
- 4Louisiana1 in 4,545
- 5North Carolina1 in 5,000
- 6South Carolina1 in 5,556
- 7Georgia1 in 5,882
- 8Florida1 in 10,000
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.
Zaylen around the world
Where Zaylen 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 & Wales2015–2025#2,269in 2025
- Canada2016–2024#1,964in 2024
- South Australia2007–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Zaylen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Zaylen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Zaylen
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Zaylen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Zaylen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.