Zayn

“Beauty” — Arabic origin

Boy's name · #253 in the US (2025) · 2020s

Zayn is near its high-water mark: it reached #246 in 2023 and still ranked #253 in 2025. About 13,000 boys have carried it since 1993. Zayn climbed in 2016, with SSA pointing to singer Zayn Malik’s success as a solo artist. Together with its spelling variant Zain (#567), Zayn would rank around #193 with about 1,900 births last year — the newborns split about 73/27 between Zayn and Zain.

Around the world: #16 in Netherlands (2025) · #38 in France (2025) · #54 in Belgium (2025) · #87 in Australia (VIC) (2025) · #87 in Canada (2024).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 41 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Zayns

Zayn Malik — English singer
Zayn al-Din Gorgani — Persian physician
Zayn al-Abidin the Great — Sultan of Kashmir (r. 1418–1419, 1420–1470)
Zayn al-Abidin Shirvani — Iranian scholar, mystic, and traveler
Zayn al-Din al-Amidi — Islamic scholar

What Zayns become

Among 31 notable people named Zayn:

No single standout — notable Zayns spread across many fields.

Similar names: Zain · Cairo · Zaid · Hamza · Hussain · Saif

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