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Zayden vs Zaydin

American parents have registered 32,439 Zaydens since 1880, against 608 Zaydins. Zayden is still ahead, with 1,668 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zayden against Zaydin, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zayden Zaydin

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

Zayden 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 2006, when Zayden had 229 and Zaydin had 10.

Side by side

  Zayden Zaydin
Total US births 32,439608
Most in one year 2,24653
Babies in 2025 1,66817
Estimated living today 32,000600
Median age today 810
Peak year 20142013
Best rank 188th boys2,364th boys
Rank in 2025 213th5,399th
First recorded 20002006
Girls / boys 193 / 32,2460 / 608

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 Zaydins alive today are over 10; half the Zaydens are over 8. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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: Zayden and Zaydin.