Zalyn
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ZAY-lin
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Zalyn is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
Where does Zalyn come from?
Modern: invented name, Za- with the -lyn ending
Is Zalyn a girl's or a boy's name?
Zalyn is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zalyn in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,710th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Zalyn, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 12 boys. It first appears in the records in 2001.
2025 had more boys named Zalyn than any year since 2019.
Half of all the boys named Zalyn in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 449 boys in the US were given Zalyn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #596, up from #9,710 for this spelling alone.
Zalyn in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 6 | #10,930 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,322 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,141 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,750 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,080 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,636 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,495 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,133 |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,798 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 7 | #9,579 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,464 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,574 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,236 |
Names like Zalyn
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zayden, Jaxton, Daxton, Kayson, Jaylen, Kyson, Jettson, Hudson, Zymir, Jayden, Easton, Zyaire
Other spellings of Zalyn
Zaylen, Zaylin, Zaelyn, Zaylan, Zaylon, Xaylen, Zalen, Zaylyn, Zailyn, Zailen, Zaylynn
More Modern names
Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Wrenley, Mya, Oaklynn, Ailani
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Zalyn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zalyn, updated 20 October 2026.