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Zaedyn vs Zaelinne

American parents have registered 813 Zaedyns since 1880, against 25 Zaelinnes. Zaedyn is still ahead, with 39 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zaedyn against Zaelinne, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zaedyn Zaelinne

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Zaedyn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2007 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Zaedyn had 39 and Zaelinne had 25.

Side by side

  Zaedyn Zaelinne
Total US births 81325
Most in one year 7725
Babies in 2025 3925
Estimated living today 81030
Median age today 80
Peak year 20132025
Best rank 1,851st boys5,099th girls
Rank in 2025 3,089th5,099th
First recorded 20072025
Girls / boys 5 / 80825 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Zaedyns alive today are over 8; half the Zaelinnes have not had a first birthday. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Zaedyn and Zaelinne.