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Zaylee vs Zaylin

American parents have registered 5,450 Zaylees since 1880, against 1,098 Zaylins. Zaylee is still ahead, with 286 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Zaylee 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

Of the 26 years in which either name was published, Zaylee for 24 years and Zaylin for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Zaylee Zaylin
Total US births 5,4501,098
Most in one year 51191
Babies in 2025 28671
Estimated living today 5,4001,100
Median age today 78
Peak year 20182023
Best rank 596th girls2,032nd boys
Rank in 2025 918th2,207th
First recorded 20002001
Girls / boys 5,450 / 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: Zaylee and Zaylin.