Zaelyn

#7,491 for girls in 2025, 14 births · #3,658 for boys in 2025, 30 births
Given to boys 54.3% of the time

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Peak · boys
2021 · 34 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
400
since 2004

Zaelyn over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#7,49114#3,65830
2024#8,94611#3,60531
2023#5,24824#3,71230
2022#6,46418#3,99527
2021#4,96426#3,36234
2020#6,08319#7,03411
2019#5,30624#5,55516
2018#5,15225#4,61021
2017#5,82121#5,29717
2016#5,79622#5,78915
2015#5,65323#6,32413
2014#7,63615#5,99714
2013#5,83422#5,17117
2012#6,11021#6,30613
2011#9,72311#6,25613
2010#9,23112#5,74115
2009#9,37912#6,09514
2008#10,80710#4,14524
2007#15,4916#7,59010
2006#3,88825
2005#11,4725
2004#11,3565
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First appearance
2004

The first year at least five boys were named Zaelyn! It came in at #11,356, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 2004–2005, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Zaelyn
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 53 spots since 2024 (#3,605#3,658)
  • 3,376 spots since 2020 (#7,034#3,658)
  • 2,666 spots since 2015 (#6,324#3,658)
Rise & fade · boys
17 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 2004
  • Peaked 2021 at #3,362 (34 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 51,455
  • Highest: 1 in 51,455 boys born in 2021 were named Zaelyn (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 56,936 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 40.8% of all boys named Zaelyn (163) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2021
  • Mostly girls until 2020, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
2000s83#3,888 (2006)#7,424
2010s154#4,610 (2018)#5,705
2020s163#3,362 (2021)#4,228

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Zaelyn in 2023

girls
#5,248
24 births · 1 in 66,858 girls
boys
#3,712
30 births · 1 in 57,019 boys

Top girls' names in 2023

  1. #1Olivia15,329
  2. #2Emma13,590
  3. #3Charlotte12,638
  4. #4Amelia12,365
  5. #5Sophia11,999
  6. #6Mia11,404
  7. #7Isabella10,871
  8. #8Ava9,737
  9. #9Evelyn9,121
  10. #10Luna7,853
  11. #5,248Zaelyn24

Top boys' names in 2023

  1. #1Liam20,904
  2. #2Noah19,116
  3. #3Oliver14,792
  4. #4James11,739
  5. #5Elijah11,523
  6. #6Mateo11,293
  7. #7Theodore11,093
  8. #8Henry10,996
  9. #9Lucas10,890
  10. #10William10,673
  11. #3,712Zaelyn30
More about 2023

girls

1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 66,858 of them was named Zaelyn, which outranked 70.2% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zaelyn
  1. #5,126Zahraa25
  2. #5,126Zanaya25
  3. #5,126Zenovia25
  4. #5,248Zaelyn24
  5. #5,248Addelynn24
  6. #5,248Adison24
  7. #5,248Ahmari24
  8. #5,390Aaleyah23
  9. #5,390Abella23
  10. #5,390Abygail23

Tied with 141 names at #5,248; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2022
Risers
  1. 1,640Kaeli#2,319#679
  2. 1,512Alitzel#2,388#876
  3. 1,287Emryn#2,174#887
  4. 813Adhara#1,583#770
  5. 717Azari#1,412#695
Fallers
  1. 364Addilynn#940#1,304
  2. 296India#968#1,264
  3. 259Madisyn#805#1,064
  4. 231Chanel#937#1,168
  5. 219Averi#906#1,125

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 57,019 of them was named Zaelyn, which outranked 73.9% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zaelyn
  1. #3,629Zamarion31
  2. #3,629Zedekiah31
  3. #3,629Zuri31
  4. #3,712Zaelyn30
  5. #3,712Aavyan30
  6. #3,712Aeson30
  7. #3,712Alasdair30
  8. #3,802Agam29
  9. #3,802Aldair29
  10. #3,802Amaree29

Tied with 89 names at #3,712; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2022
Risers
  1. 858Izael#1,665#807
  2. 662Chozen#1,479#817
  3. 589Eiden#1,479#890
  4. 409Cassian#938#529
  5. 385Kyren#1,322#937
Fallers
  1. 384Dior#842#1,226
  2. 275Maxton#963#1,238
  3. 205Davian#967#1,172
  4. 193Braden#935#1,128
  5. 191Heath#862#1,053

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2023