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Zayne

#473 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly Yahweh is gracious, through Zane

Zayne has been given to 13,067 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #473 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 866 recorded.

Babies named Zayne, 2025

1 in 5,150

Zayne over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zayne: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly Yahweh is gracious, through Zane

surname transfer

What Zayne means

Zayne belongs to the name family reached through Zayne → Zane → John. Its meaning is “Yahweh is gracious”.

Origin, language, and formation

Zayne is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Zayne is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zane and John.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,857 boys were recorded with the name Zayne between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 866 in 2021; its best national rank was #376 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #394 in 2020 to #473 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #497 in 2015 to #473 in 2025.

In the United States, 210 girls were recorded with the name Zayne between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2014; its best national rank was #8,285 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,940 in 2020 to #13,176 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #19,066 in 2015 to #13,176 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 Zayne?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 5,150
644 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 2,650
0.04% of boys
Rank, 2025
#473
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,569 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zayne 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 1002%
School of 5009%

Put another way: gather 3,569 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zayne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zaynes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zayne was born before 2017 — so the typical Zayne is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
46.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
12,857
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 46.2% of all recorded uses (5,934).

Is Zayne 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
−26
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−79
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+24
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
74.4%
Peak was 2021 (866)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#376
2021

Spellings of Zayne

Zayne is not the most common spelling — Wayne is, with 43.6% against Zayne's 1.6%.

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 Zayne is used

Across 2016–2025, Zayne was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 787 boys, against 1 in 2,065 across all states with data. It was least common in New Hampshire (1 in 7,143).

14127 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 787
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 1,042
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 1,176
  4. 4West Virginia1 in 1,266
  5. 5Nevada1 in 1,299
  6. 6Indiana1 in 1,351
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 1,351
  8. 8Iowa1 in 1,408

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, Zayne is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 22% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Zayne around the world

Where Zayne 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
    1997–2025
    #639
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2011–2025
    #441
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2020–2024
    #339
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2017–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    2013–2025
    #2,833
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #335
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1990–2013
    #389
    in 2013

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.

Zayne by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#473
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 79
Best rank ever
#376
2021
Peak year
2021
866 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12,857
Count in 2025
644

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,176
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,236
Best rank ever
#8,285
2017
Peak year
2014
14 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
210
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Zayne

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

ZaynLayneZaydenZaydZayanShayneZaylenDayneKayneRyneBlayneZayvionZaydeZayedDewayneRayneZaylinPayneZaydanZayaanDwayneZayonZaydinZaylon

Names with a curve like Zayne

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

RaidenEdenOdinMatthiasSullivanKianFinneganRoninRhysKysonNikolaiDaxton

Sibling names for Zayne

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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