Zayin
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ZAY-in
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #5,207 for boys
Zayin is a boys' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,207th for boys in the US (18 babies).
What does Zayin mean?
Arabic: probably a spelling of Zayn; zayin is also a Hebrew letter
Zayin is the seventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
Is Zayin a girl's or a boy's name?
Zayin is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zayin in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,207th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 18 about 1 in 95,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 40% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 18 boys in the US were named Zayin, making it the 5,207th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. It first appears in the records in 2001.
2025 had the most boys named Zayin of any year since it first appeared, in 2001.
Half of all the boys named Zayin in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 282 boys in the US were given Zayin or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #801, up from #5,207 for this spelling alone.
Zayin in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,207 |
| 2024 | 15 | #5,899 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,661 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,473 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,084 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,497 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,551 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,150 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,091 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,600 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,035 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,557 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 8 | #8,858 |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,801 |
| 2010 | 6 | #10,759 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,231 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,030 |
| 2007 | 14 | #5,898 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,048 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,089 |
| 2004 | 10 | #6,970 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,636 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,385 |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,548 |
Names like Zayin
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zahir, Zayd, Hamza, Zamir, Zayaan, Muhammad, Musa, Ahmir, Zayyan, Yazan, Rayyan, Zubair
Other spellings of Zayin
Names related to Zayin
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Kairo, Safa
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, “Zayin: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zayin, updated 20 October 2026.