Zayan

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Zayan: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Zayan: Recorded since 1998, its highest recorded position is #208, and it stood at #509 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#208highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1998–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#2901
2000	#1703
2001	#3134
2002	#2636
2003	#1962
2004	#1410
2005	#919
2006	#748
2007	#865
2008	#577
2009	#476
2010	#477
2011	#449
2012	#349
2013	#420
2014	#393
2015	#442
2016	#377
2017	#383
2018	#356
2019	#310
2020	#256
2021	#269
2022	#261
2023	#251
2024	#208

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 26 of the 27 years from 1998 to 2024.

In 2024: #208 among boys in England and Wales, #339 among boys in Northern Ireland, #352 among boys in Scotland, #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1998–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #2901 among boys in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1998–2024
Highest recorded position: #208 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1998–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #509 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Zayan appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 2,318 births with the name.

Zayan across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Zayan's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2901 (1998)	#208 (2024)	#208 (2024)	26 of 27	2,318 (1998–2024)	241 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#699 (2015)	#509 (2025)	#509 (2025)	5 of 11	23 (2015–2025)	6 (2023)

Zayan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Zayan in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	253	10 of 10	25
2010s	1,099	10 of 10	110
2020sbusiest	963	5 of 10	193

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 193 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2023 and 2024, when recorded births rose by 54, from 187 to 241.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Zayan appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1998 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #208 in England and Wales in 2024.

Zayan's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#208	241	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#251	187	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#261	180	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#269	170	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#256	185	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#310	155	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#356	128	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#383	118	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#377	121	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#442	92	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#393	104	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#420	97	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#349	125	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#449	84	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#477	75	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#476	75	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#577	57	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#865	30	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#748	34	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#919	24	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1410	12	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1962	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1703	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#339	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#509	6	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#516	6	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#564	5	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#352	10	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1998 and 2025, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #208, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 241 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2015, and 26 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Nia · #209, 30y
Raina · #209, 26y
Nola · #206, 26y
Sydney · #206, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Cadan · #209, 28y
Deanna · #207, 32y
Findlay · #209, 29y
Fiontan · #207, 10y

Zayan was ranked #208 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Zayan and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Zayan without appearing here.

Zayan moved ahead of

Harald Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2901 and #2901 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #748 and #4052.
Willow Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2901 and #2901 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #919 and #3849.
Ole Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1962 and #1771 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1410 and #3651.
Ashleigh Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1962 and #1962 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #919 and #2754.

Moved ahead of Zayan

Arlo Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1703 and #2142 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #3134 and #1949.

Moved the opposite way to Zayan

Aaron Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayan went from #2901 to #208 while Aaron went from #31 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayan went from #2901 to #208 while Adam went from #21 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayan went from #2901 to #208 while Alan went from #196 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayan went from #2901 to #208 while Alex went from #46 to #171.

Moved the same way as Zayan

Albie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayan went from #2901 to #208 and Albie from #716 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayan went from #2901 to #208 and Alfie from #71 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayan went from #2901 to #208 and Alfred from #174 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayan went from #2901 to #208 and Archie from #120 to #10.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1998 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #208 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Zayan

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Zayan across 2 official records

Zayan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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