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Zaylee vs Zayleigh

American parents have registered 5,450 Zaylees since 1880, against 925 Zayleighs. Zaylee is still ahead, with 286 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Zaylee Zayleigh

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 2012, when Zaylee had 161 and Zayleigh had 49.

Side by side

  Zaylee Zayleigh
Total US births 5,450925
Most in one year 51195
Babies in 2025 28646
Estimated living today 5,400920
Median age today 77
Peak year 20182019
Best rank 596th girls2,011th girls
Rank in 2025 918th3,342nd
First recorded 20002006
Girls / boys 5,450 / 0925 / 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 Zaylee Zayleigh
England and Wales 166

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: Zaylee and Zayleigh.