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Zaydan vs Zaylee

American parents have registered 5,450 Zaylees since 1880, against 695 Zaydans. Zaylee is still ahead, with 286 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zaydan against Zaylee, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zaydan Zaylee

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

Zaylee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2000 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2002, when Zaydan had 5 and Zaylee had 7.

Side by side

  Zaydan Zaylee
Total US births 6955,450
Most in one year 55511
Babies in 2025 55286
Estimated living today 6905,400
Median age today 77
Peak year 20252018
Best rank 2,451st boys596th girls
Rank in 2025 2,451st918th
First recorded 20022000
Girls / boys 0 / 6955,450 / 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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Zaydan Zaylee
England and Wales 41716
France 55

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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