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Zayn

#253 in 2025Boys' name

Beauty

Zayn has been given to 13,221 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #253 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 1,426 recorded.

Babies named Zayn, 2025

1 in 2,400

Zayn over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zayn: meaning, origin, and history

Beauty

Arabic

What Zayn means

Zayn means “beauty”, associated with zayn.

Origin, language, and formation

Zayn is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Zayn comes through Arabic زَيْن.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Zayn is pronounced /zeɪn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,118 boys were recorded with the name Zayn between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,426 in 2024; its best national rank was #246 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #312 in 2020 to #253 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #643 in 2015 to #253 in 2025.

In the United States, 103 girls were recorded with the name Zayn between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2021; its best national rank was #6,956 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #12,115 in 2020 to #17,248 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #19,065 in 2015 to #17,248 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 Zayn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 2,400
1,381 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 1,240
0.08% of boys
Rank, 2025
#253
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
1,665 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zayn 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 301%
Grade of 1004%
School of 50019%

Put another way: gather 1,665 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zayn. In a class of 30 the chance is 1%.

When Zayns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zayn was born before 2021 — so the typical Zayn is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
59.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
13,118
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 59.2% of all recorded uses (7,770).

Is Zayn 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
−4
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+59
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+390
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.39×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
96.8%
Peak was 2024 (1,426)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#246
2023

Spellings of Zayn

Zayn is not the most common spelling — Wayne is, with 23.0% against Zayn's 0.85%.

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 Zayn is used

Across 2016–2025, Zayn was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 758 boys, against 1 in 1,348 across all states with data. It was least common in Idaho (1 in 16,667).

6132 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 758
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 763
  3. 3Michigan1 in 800
  4. 4New York1 in 862
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 962
  6. 6Virginia1 in 1,031
  7. 7Minnesota1 in 1,087
  8. 8Florida1 in 1,124

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.

Geographically, Zayn is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 34% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Zayn around the world

Where Zayn 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
    1996–2025
    #133
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2025
    #160
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2013–2024
    #339
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2012–2025
    #317
    in 2025
  • France
    2010–2025
    #38
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2005–2024
    #87
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1996–2013
    #317
    in 2013
  • New South Wales
    2021–2023
    #97
    in 2023

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

Notable people named Zayn

People whose public names include Zayn, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Zayn by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#253
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 59
Best rank ever
#246
2023
Peak year
2024
1,426 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13,118
Count in 2025
1,381

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#17,248
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,133
Best rank ever
#6,956
2021
Peak year
2021
17 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
103
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Zayn

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

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Names with a curve like Zayn

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

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Sibling names for Zayn

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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