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Zaedyn vs Zaelyn

American parents have registered 813 Zaedyns since 1880, against 736 Zaelyns. But in 2025 it was Zaelyn that was commoner, 44 babies to 39.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zaedyn against Zaelyn, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zaedyn Zaelyn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 22 years in which either name was published, Zaedyn for 12 years and Zaelyn for 10 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Zaedyn Zaelyn
Total US births 813736
Most in one year 7760
Babies in 2025 3944
Estimated living today 810730
Median age today 88
Peak year 20132021
Best rank 1,851st boys3,362nd boys
Rank in 2025 3,089th3,658th
First recorded 20072004
Girls / boys 5 / 808336 / 400

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Zaedyn and Zaelyn.