Zain
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · #567 for boys in 2025, 522 births
Given to boys 96.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2019 · 526 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,918since 1968
Zain over time
Rank among boys' names. Zain has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 | #567 | 522 |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 | #557 | 533 |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | #550 | 532 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | #557 | 536 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #586 | 476 |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 | #574 | 485 |
| 2019 | #5,306 | 24 | #539 | 526 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 | #587 | 466 |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 | #649 | 399 |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 | #683 | 367 |
| 2015 | #7,613 | 15 | #717 | 346 |
| 2014 | #5,993 | 21 | #678 | 373 |
| 2013 | #6,255 | 20 | #664 | 364 |
| 2012 | #9,109 | 12 | #717 | 330 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #735 | 308 |
| 2010 | #8,271 | 14 | #785 | 279 |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | #774 | 295 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #804 | 273 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #871 | 238 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #871 | 228 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #854 | 215 |
| 2004 | — | #827 | 215 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #891 | 189 |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 | #921 | 174 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #921 | 169 |
| 2000 | — | #1,061 | 135 | |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #1,006 | 139 |
| 1998 | — | #1,039 | 130 | |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #1,234 | 94 |
| 1996 | — | #1,334 | 81 | |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | #1,359 | 75 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #1,544 | 60 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #2,123 | 37 |
| 1992 | — | #1,621 | 54 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,823 | 43 | |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #1,662 | 49 |
| 1989 | — | #2,469 | 26 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,035 | 31 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,333 | 24 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,429 | 22 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,216 | 14 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,107 | 14 | |
| 1983 | — | #5,484 | 6 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,003 | 7 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,509 | 8 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,940 | 7 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,168 | 13 | |
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| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
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| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zain! It came in at #4,136, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1976, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Zain is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Illinois#631 · 1 in 6,179
- New York#707 · 1 in 7,208
- Texas#733 · 1 in 8,453
- California#782 · 1 in 10,579
- Pennsylvania#793 · 1 in 11,120
Best ever in a state: #254 in Virginia, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Illinois | #631 | 13 | 1 in 6,179 |
| New York | #707 | 16 | 1 in 7,208 |
| Texas | #733 | 19 | 1 in 8,453 |
| California | #782 | 23 | 1 in 10,579 |
| Pennsylvania | #793 | 6 | 1 in 11,120 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Zain
- 10 spots since 2024 (#557 → #567)
- 7 spots since 2020 (#574 → #567)
- 150 spots since 2015 (#717 → #567)
- Biggest jump: 140 spots in 2001 (#1,061 → #921)
- Biggest drop: 39 spots in 2015 (#678 → #717)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 2019 at #539 (526 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 25 yrs · run 2001–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,215 boys born in 2023 were named Zain (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,272 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #539 in 2019, was only 1 in 3,411 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 37.9% of all boys named Zain (3,758) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #4,136 (1968) | #4,136 |
| 1970s | 19 | #3,168 (1979) | #4,146 |
| 1980s | 159 | #2,035 (1988) | #3,553 |
| 1990s | 762 | #1,006 (1999) | #1,475 |
| 2000s | 2,131 | #774 (2009) | #880 |
| 2010s | 3,758 | #539 (2019) | #675 |
| 2020s | 3,084 | #550 (2023) | #565 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Zain in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
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1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 14,703 of them was named Zain, which outranked 90.8% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,032Justen131
- #1,032Storm131
- #1,032Yosef131
- #1,039Zain130
- #1,039Britton130
- #1,039Ean130
- #1,039Edgardo130
- #1,044Brodie129
- #1,044Cristobal129
- #1,044Eliezer129
Tied with 4 names at #1,039; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.