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Zayne vs Zayvian

American parents have registered 13,067 Zaynes since 1880, against 566 Zayvians. Zayne is still ahead, with 651 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zayne against Zayvian, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zayne Zayvian

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

Zayne has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1982 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Zayne had 651 and Zayvian had 48.

Side by side

  Zayne Zayvian
Total US births 13,067566
Most in one year 87753
Babies in 2025 65148
Estimated living today 13,000560
Median age today 86
Peak year 20212021
Best rank 376th boys2,499th boys
Rank in 2025 473rd2,676th
First recorded 19822002
Girls / boys 210 / 12,8570 / 566

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 Zaynes alive today are over 8; half the Zayvians are over 6. 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 Zayne Zayvian
England and Wales 9133

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: Zayne and Zayvian.