Zayden

What Zayden means

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

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 2000, with 11 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Zayden?

US: Falling: down from #192 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1279 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2020, when 2,104 boys got the name (#185 that year). First in the US records in 2000.

How common

• About 1 in 1,031 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 4,059 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,928 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 NM (4.31 per 1,000 boys), RI (3.2 per 1,000 boys), HI (3.08 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Zayden is #213 in the US and #578 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.3% of US babies named Zayden were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Zaiden466 US · 19 E&W
• Xaden128 US
• Zaydan55 US · 51 E&W
• Xaiden99 US
• Zaidyn80 US · 3 E&W
• Xayden78 US
• Zaden52 US
• Zaedyn39 US

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 Zayden

Boys

• Beckham#168“homestead”^*
• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*
• Jude#155possibly “praised”^*
• 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
• Kayden#135Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1989, with 6 babies
• Micah#90“who is like Yahweh”^*

For a sister

• Layla#36Editor’s note Down from #30 in 2015 to #36 in 2025 in the US
• Ximena#183Basque, meaning “son”^*
• Lola#275Editor’s note Down from #224 in 2015 to #275 in 2025 in the US
• Leila#259Editor’s note Steady in the US: #247 in 2015 and #259 in 2025
• Stella#52“star”^*
• Norah#262Form of Eleanor, possibly meaning “other”^*

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