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Zailyn

Zailyn reached its high-water mark in 2013 at number 5,486, and has been recorded 531 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 8,362nd. About 530 Zailyns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Zailyn boys named Zailyn

Girls and boys called Zailyn

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 324 girls and 207 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 12 to 14.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 13 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
531
Estimated living today
530
Median age today
8
Peak year
2013
Best rank
5,486th
Rank in 2025
8,362nd
First recorded
2005
Girls / boys
324 / 207

How old the living Zailyns are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 531 babies given the name since 2005, about 530 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 510 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Zailyn is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Zailyn is most concentrated in Texas (8.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2013

The most popular girls’ names the year Zailyn peaked:

All the names of 2013

Related names

Zailyn against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.