Zayn

Where Zayn comes from

From Arabic زَيْن (zayn, “beauty”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Zayn
  • Arabic
  • 1 syllable
Along the way
  1. 1993
    First appearance
    #8,700 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1994
    Zayn Africa born
    Nigerian singer-songwriter
  3. 2023
    Peak, #246
    1,417 babies named Zayn — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic.
Namesakes
  • Zayn Africa · Nigerian singer-songwriter, born 1994

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.