Zaylei
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ZAY-lee
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Zaylei is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
Where does Zaylei come from?
Modern: modern coinage with the -lei ending
Is Zaylei a girl's or a boy's name?
Zaylei is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zaylei in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Zaylei, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,625th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 2009.
Half of all the girls named Zaylei in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 521 girls in the US were given Zaylei or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #575, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
Zaylei in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,702 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,686 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,625 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,836 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
Names like Zaylei
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kehlani, Zaliyah, Zaniyah, Amoura, Jaylani, Khaleesi, Zhamira, Malani, Kaylani, Ailany, Zariah, Zya
Other spellings of Zaylei
Zaylee, Zayleigh, Zaylie, Zailee, Zailey, Zaeli, Zayli, Zayley, Xaylee, Zaleigh, Zaileigh
Names related to Zaylei
More Modern names
Jayden, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, 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, “Zaylei: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zaylei, updated 20 October 2026.