Zain
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · #567 for boys in 2025, 522 births
Given to boys 96.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2019 · 526 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,918since 1968
Zain over time
Rank among boys' names. Zain has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 | #567 | 522 |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 | #557 | 533 |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | #550 | 532 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | #557 | 536 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #586 | 476 |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 | #574 | 485 |
| 2019 | #5,306 | 24 | #539 | 526 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 | #587 | 466 |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 | #649 | 399 |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 | #683 | 367 |
| 2015 | #7,613 | 15 | #717 | 346 |
| 2014 | #5,993 | 21 | #678 | 373 |
| 2013 | #6,255 | 20 | #664 | 364 |
| 2012 | #9,109 | 12 | #717 | 330 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #735 | 308 |
| 2010 | #8,271 | 14 | #785 | 279 |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | #774 | 295 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #804 | 273 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #871 | 238 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #871 | 228 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #854 | 215 |
| 2004 | — | #827 | 215 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #891 | 189 |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 | #921 | 174 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #921 | 169 |
| 2000 | — | #1,061 | 135 | |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #1,006 | 139 |
| 1998 | — | #1,039 | 130 | |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #1,234 | 94 |
| 1996 | — | #1,334 | 81 | |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | #1,359 | 75 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #1,544 | 60 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #2,123 | 37 |
| 1992 | — | #1,621 | 54 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,823 | 43 | |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #1,662 | 49 |
| 1989 | — | #2,469 | 26 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,035 | 31 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,333 | 24 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,429 | 22 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,216 | 14 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,107 | 14 | |
| 1983 | — | #5,484 | 6 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,003 | 7 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,509 | 8 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,940 | 7 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,168 | 13 | |
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| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
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| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zain! It came in at #4,136, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1976, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Zain
- 10 spots since 2024 (#557 → #567)
- 7 spots since 2020 (#574 → #567)
- 150 spots since 2015 (#717 → #567)
- Biggest jump: 140 spots in 2001 (#1,061 → #921)
- Biggest drop: 39 spots in 2015 (#678 → #717)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 2019 at #539 (526 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 25 yrs · run 2001–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,215 boys born in 2023 were named Zain (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,272 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #539 in 2019, was only 1 in 3,411 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 37.9% of all boys named Zain (3,758) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #4,136 (1968) | #4,136 |
| 1970s | 19 | #3,168 (1979) | #4,146 |
| 1980s | 159 | #2,035 (1988) | #3,553 |
| 1990s | 762 | #1,006 (1999) | #1,475 |
| 2000s | 2,131 | #774 (2009) | #880 |
| 2010s | 3,758 | #539 (2019) | #675 |
| 2020s | 3,084 | #550 (2023) | #565 |
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.
Zain in 2001
Top girls' names in 2001
Top boys' names in 2001
More about 2001
girls
1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 257,232 of them was named Zain, which outranked 32.9% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #11,020Zorah8
- #11,020Zykiria8
- #11,020Zyonna8
- #12,056Zain7
- #12,056Aaisha7
- #12,056Aajaylah7
- #12,056Aaliayah7
- #13,521Aaleah6
- #13,521Aalyssa6
- #13,521Aamira6
Tied with 1,464 names at #12,056; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 11,496 of them was named Zain, which outranked 92.5% of the 12,307 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).