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Zain

boys’ nameAt its peak · modern nameCompare

Zain is ranked 555th among boys in 2024 (532 births). Its best rank was 539th, in 2019.

Rank in 2024
#555down 5 from 2023
Births in 2024
5320.03% of boys
Peak year
2022535 births
Best rank
#539in 2019
Since 1968
9,712people given the name
Babies named Zain, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

9,395 boys have been named Zain in the United States since 1968, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 535 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2022, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2014, and the 2010s alone account for 40%. It has spent 24 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 317 girls have also been given it, 3.3% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Zain
1960s5
1970s19
1980s160
1990s762
2000s2,131
2010s3,758
2020s2,560

In 2022, its biggest year

Zain was the 558th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2022 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2022.

Names that rose and fell with Zain

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.