Zayd vs Zaylin
American parents have registered 4,895 Zayds since 1880, against 1,098 Zaylins. Zayd is still ahead, with 442 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Zayd Zaylin
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
Zayd has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 2012, when Zayd had 123 and Zaylin had 60.
Side by side
| Zayd | Zaylin | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 4,895 | 1,098 |
| Most in one year | 442 | 91 |
| Babies in 2025 | 442 | 71 |
| Estimated living today | 4,900 | 1,100 |
| Median age today | 6 | 8 |
| Peak year | 2025 | 2023 |
| Best rank | 632nd boys | 2,032nd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 632nd | 2,207th |
| First recorded | 1974 | 2001 |
| Girls / boys | 5 / 4,890 | 303 / 795 |
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 Zaylins alive today are over 8; half the Zayds are over 6. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Zayd Minnesota (2.2×), Virginia (2.0×), New Jersey (2.0×)
- Zaylin Texas (6.4×), North Carolina (4.7×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Zayd and Zaylin.