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Zayla vs Zaylin

American parents have registered 3,949 Zaylas since 1880, against 1,098 Zaylins. Zayla is still ahead, with 248 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zayla against Zaylin, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zayla 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

Zayla has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1994 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Zayla had 104 and Zaylin had 56.

Side by side

  Zayla Zaylin
Total US births 3,9491,098
Most in one year 35191
Babies in 2025 24871
Estimated living today 3,9001,100
Median age today 78
Peak year 20232023
Best rank 800th girls2,032nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,008th2,207th
First recorded 19942001
Girls / boys 3,949 / 0303 / 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.

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: Zayla and Zaylin.