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Zayla vs Zayvion

American parents have registered 3,949 Zaylas since 1880, against 2,215 Zayvions. Zayla is still ahead, with 248 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Zayla Zayvion

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 32 years in which either name was published, Zayla for 29 years and Zayvion for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Zayla Zayvion
Total US births 3,9492,215
Most in one year 351138
Babies in 2025 248110
Estimated living today 3,9002,200
Median age today 79
Peak year 20232021
Best rank 800th girls1,339th boys
Rank in 2025 1,008th1,554th
First recorded 19941999
Girls / boys 3,949 / 00 / 2,215

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 Zayvions alive today are over 9; half the Zaylas are over 7. 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 Zayla Zayvion
England and Wales 653

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: Zayla and Zayvion.