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Zayden

Zayden is a boy's name that peaked in 2014, when it was the 188th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 213th. About 32,000 Zaydens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Zayden boys named Zayden

By the numbers

Total US births
32,439
Estimated living today
32,000
Median age today
8
Peak year
2014
Best rank
188th
Rank in 2025
213th
First recorded
2000
Girls / boys
193 / 32,246

How old the living Zaydens are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 32,439 babies given the name since 2000, about 32,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 31,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin a coined name

American 21st-century coinage, rhyming with Jayden, Brayden, Aidan, etc.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Zayden is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Zayden is most concentrated in Nevada (3.1×), Hawaii (2.7×), New Mexico (2.7×), Arizona (1.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2014

The most popular boys’ names the year Zayden peaked:

All the names of 2014

Zayden elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Zayden 656 531st
France boys Zayden 200 1,138th
Scotland boys Zayden 14 560th
Belgium boys Zayden 9 900th
Northern Ireland boys Zayden 3 395th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Zayden: rank by region

In 2025, Zayden was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Zayden 714 7

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Zayden among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland boys Zayden 6

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Related names

Zayden against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.