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 2011
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Virginia#466 · 1 in 2,950
- Illinois#491 · 1 in 3,080
- New York#528 · 1 in 3,730
- Missouri#546 · 1 in 3,597
- Michigan#572 · 1 in 4,023
Best ever in a state: #254 in Virginia, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Virginia | #466 | 14 | 1 in 2,950 |
| Illinois | #491 | 22 | 1 in 3,080 |
| New York | #528 | 28 | 1 in 3,730 |
| Missouri | #546 | 9 | 1 in 3,597 |
| Michigan | #572 | 12 | 1 in 4,023 |
| Oklahoma | #579 | 6 | 1 in 3,390 |
| Washington | #587 | 10 | 1 in 3,593 |
| Texas | #625 | 37 | 1 in 4,731 |
| Pennsylvania | #631 | 12 | 1 in 5,073 |
| New Jersey | #643 | 9 | 1 in 4,711 |
| California | #673 | 39 | 1 in 5,907 |
| Massachusetts | #682 | 5 | 1 in 6,000 |
| Maryland | #751 | 5 | 1 in 5,606 |
| Arizona | #762 | 6 | 1 in 6,112 |
| Florida | #782 | 15 | 1 in 6,134 |
| Ohio | #912 | 7 | 1 in 8,528 |
| Georgia | #988 | 7 | 1 in 7,855 |
| North Carolina | #1,097 | 5 | 1 in 10,179 |
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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 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 351,813 of them was named Zain, which outranked 14.4% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 6,166 of them was named Zain, which outranked 94.9% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).