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Zeyn

#9,699 in 2025Boys' name

From Arabic زَيْن; literal meaning unconfirmed

Zeyn has been given to 43 babies in the U.S. since 2018. In 2025 it ranked #9,699 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Zeyn, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zeyn: meaning, origin, and history

From Arabic زَيْن; literal meaning unconfirmed

Arabic

What Zeyn means

Zeyn is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Zeyn is used in Azerbaijani. Its origins include Arabic.

Zeyn comes through Arabic زَيْن.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 43 boys were recorded with the name Zeyn between 2018 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2024; its best national rank was #7,755 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,035 in 2020 to #9,699 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 Zeyn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,699
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zeyn 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zeyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zeyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zeyn was born before 2023 — so the typical Zeyn is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
72.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
43
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 72.1% of all recorded uses (31).

Is Zeyn 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
−1,944
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,336
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
72.7%
Peak was 2024 (11)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,755
2024

Spellings of Zeyn

Zeyn is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 36.4% against Zeyn's <0.01%.

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.

Zeyn around the world

Where Zeyn 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
    2010–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • France
    2013–2025
    #765
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1993–1993
    #519
    in 1993

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.

Zeyn by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,699
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,336
Best rank ever
#7,755
2024
Peak year
2024
11 that year
First recorded
2018
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
43
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Zeyn

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

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Sibling names for Zeyn

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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