Zayaan

What Zayaan means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Zayaan yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #255 vs #2,207 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Zayaan?

US: Rising: up from #5507 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #493 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 64 boys got the name (#2207 that year). First in the US records in 2004.

How common

• About 1 in 26,689 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,511 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,910 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NY (0.14 per 1,000 boys), FL (0.06 per 1,000 boys), TX (0.04 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Zayaan is #2207 in the US and #255 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Zayaan were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ziyaan7 US · 18 E&W
• Zayin18 US
• Zaiyaan0 US · 4 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Zayaan

Boys

• Cohen#225Editor’s note Up from #336 in 2015 to #225 in 2025 in the US
• Cash#287Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #287 vs #2,014 in 2025
• Ace#164Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #419 in 2015, #164 in 2025
• Kash#286Editor’s note Up from #382 in 2015 to #286 in 2025 in the US
• Emerson#254Editor’s note Up from #300 in 2015 to #254 in 2025 in the US
• Charlie#145Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #22 vs #145 in 2025

For a sister

• Ruby#64Editor’s note Up from #83 in 2015 to #64 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 450 US girls in the 2025 records
• Luciana#273Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #273 vs #1,809 in 2025
• Liliana#78Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Evangeline#147“good news”^*
• Scarlett#32Editor’s note Down from #22 in 2015 to #32 in 2025 in the US
• Violet#13From the word “violet”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Zayaan’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.