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Zayden vs Zaylie

American parents have registered 32,439 Zaydens since 1880, against 879 Zaylies. Zayden is still ahead, with 1,668 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Zayden Zaylie

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

Of the 27 years in which either name was published, Zayden for 26 years and Zaylie for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Zayden Zaylie
Total US births 32,439879
Most in one year 2,24657
Babies in 2025 1,66842
Estimated living today 32,000870
Median age today 810
Peak year 20142024
Best rank 188th boys2,889th girls
Rank in 2025 213th3,577th
First recorded 20001998
Girls / boys 193 / 32,246879 / 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 Zaylies 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Zayden Zaylie
England and Wales 6563

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: Zayden and Zaylie.