Zayan

What Zayan means

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

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #2,036 in 2015, #1,015 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Zayan?

US: Rising: up from #2036 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #442 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 221 boys got the name (#1015 that year). First in the US records in 1999.

How common

• About 1 in 7,729 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,133 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,511 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 (0.39 per 1,000 boys), VA (0.3 per 1,000 boys), MN (0.29 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Zayan is #1015 in the US and #209 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 Zayan were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Zyon249 US · 23 E&W
• Zyan112 US · 21 E&W
• Zayyan36 US · 55 E&W
• Ziyon30 US · 3 E&W
• Sayan20 US · 10 E&W
• Zayen22 US · 5 E&W
• Ziyan15 US · 6 E&W
• Saiyan16 US · 3 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 Zayan

Boys

• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*
• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025
• Ronan#247Irish, meaning “little seal”^*
• Sebastian#16“august, venerable, exalted”^*
• Beckham#168“homestead”^*
• Axel#79Editor’s note Up from #123 in 2015 to #79 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 410 US boys in the 2025 records

For a sister

• Emersyn#138Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #138 vs #3,705 in 2025
• Selah#216“to hang”^*
• Gia#287Editor’s note Up from #372 in 2015 to #287 in 2025 in the US
• Poppy#292Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #7 vs #292 in 2025
• Lilah#179Editor’s note Up from #314 in 2015 to #179 in 2025 in the US
• Kaia#193Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #447 in 2015, #193 in 2025

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 Zayan’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.