Zein

#3,757 for boys in 2025, 29 births

Peak · boys
2018 · 36 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
455
since 1991

Zein over time

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Rank among boys' names. Zein has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201991peak #3,171, 2018boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#3,75729
2024#4,20025
2023#3,80229
2022#3,87928
2021#4,49422
2020#4,27523
2019#4,63921
2018#3,17136
2017#6,06014
2016#4,09825
2015#4,71120
2014#8,1309
2013#5,65915
2012#6,30613
2011#4,22123
2010#7,59110
2009#6,80212
2008#7,69810
2007#6,62212
2006#7,42710
2005#6,63411
2004#5,81313
2003#7,8318
2002#5,72512
2001#8,3397
2000#8,2097
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First appearance
1991

The first year at least five boys were named Zein! It came in at #8,236, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1991–1998, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Zein
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 443 spots since 2024 (#4,200#3,757)
  • 518 spots since 2020 (#4,275#3,757)
  • 954 spots since 2015 (#4,711#3,757)
Rise & fade · boys
27 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1991
  • Peaked 2018 at #3,171 (36 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 50,449
  • Highest: 1 in 50,449 boys born in 2018 were named Zein (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 58,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 40.9% of all boys named Zein (186) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s11#8,236 (1991)#8,470
2000s102#5,725 (2002)#7,110
2010s186#3,171 (2018)#5,459
2020s156#3,757 (2025)#4,068

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.

Zein in 1991

boys
#8,236
5 births · 1 in 404,066 boys

Top boys' names in 1991

  1. #1Michael60,810
  2. #2Christopher47,111
  3. #3Matthew41,647
  4. #4Joshua41,226
  5. #5Andrew31,539
  6. #6Daniel30,935
  7. #7James30,514
  8. #8David30,416
  9. #9Joseph29,840
  10. #10John27,809
  11. #8,236Zein5
More about 1991

boys

2,020,328 boys got a published name in 1991; 1 in 404,066 of them was named Zein, which outranked 14.6% of the 9,648 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zein
  1. #7,271Zia6
  2. #7,271Zubair6
  3. #7,271Zubin6
  4. #8,236Zein5
  5. #8,236Aaran5
  6. #8,236Aarick5
  7. #8,236Abdo5

Tied with 1,412 names at #8,236; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1990
Risers
  1. 4,462Devante#5,382#920
  2. 1,656Unnamed#2,628#972
  3. 1,496Jaleel#2,373#877
  4. 811Gunnar#1,516#705
  5. 672Dijon#1,587#915
Fallers
  1. 1,000Arsenio#744#1,744
  2. 773Brittany#995#1,768
  3. 281Infant#389#670
  4. 281Jarret#881#1,162
  5. 273Elton#963#1,236

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

See the top 100 for 1991