Zayn

maleStatistical record

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

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

Zayn: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #93 in 2021, and it stood at #317 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
57times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#93highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#976
1997	#694
1998	#669
1999	#655
2000	#817
2001	#654
2002	#546
2003	#577
2004	#655
2005	#544
2006	#543
2007	#651
2008	#668
2009	#696
2010	#566
2011	#315
2012	#266
2013	#244
2014	#239
2015	#220
2016	#190
2017	#200
2018	#189
2019	#183
2020	#181
2021	#167
2022	#161
2023	#166
2024	#137

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 every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #137 among boys in England and Wales, #207 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #330 among boys in Scotland, #339 among boys in Northern Ireland.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #976 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2021–2023
Highest recorded position: #93 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, in 2021 (recorded 2021–2023).
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #317 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Zayn appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 4,326 births with the name.

Zayn across 4 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.

Zayn'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	#976 (1996)	#137 (2024)	#137 (2024)	29 of 29	4,326 (1996–2024)	390 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#718 (2012)	#203 (2023)	#317 (2025)	14 of 14	171 (2012–2025)	24 (2023)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#343 (2013)	#312 (2019)	#339 (2024)	10 of 12	39 (2013–2024)	5 (2017)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#93 (2021)	#93 (2021)	#97 (2023)	3 of 3	284 (2021–2023)	100 (2021)

Zayn 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 Zayn in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	88	4 of 10	22
2000s	397	10 of 10	40
2010s	2,203	10 of 10	220
2020sbusiest	1,638	5 of 10	328

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 328 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2010 and 2011, when recorded births rose by 81, from 60 to 141.

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

Zayn 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 5 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #93 in New South Wales, Australia in 2021.

Zayn'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	#137	390	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#166	311	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#161	320	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#167	320	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#181	297	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#183	285	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#189	281	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#200	267	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#190	296	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#220	255	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#239	231	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#244	209	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#266	178	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#315	141	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#566	60	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#696	43	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#668	45	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#651	44	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#543	54	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#544	49	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#655	37	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#577	39	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#546	38	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#654	28	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#817	20	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#655	26	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#669	25	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#694	23	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#976	14	High	Verified
2023	New South Wales, Australia	male	#97	88	Insufficient	Not yet available
2022	New South Wales, Australia	male	#95	96	Insufficient	Not yet available
2021	New South Wales, Australia	male	#93	100	Insufficient	Not yet available
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#339	4	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#395	3	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#352	4	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#374	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#392	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#312	5	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#365	4	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#318	5	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#415	3	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#343	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#317	13	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#207	23	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#203	24	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#262	18	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#257	18	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#324	13	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#402	9	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#262	18	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#418	8	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#448	7	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#554	5	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#468	7	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#534	5	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#718	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#330	11	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
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 5 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #93, first reached in 2021.

It held a top-100 place in 3 years, 3 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 390 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2012, and 28 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 5 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.

Nellie · #93, 29y
Yahya · #93, 34y
Fraser · #92, 30y
Silas · #92, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Anika · #93, 30y
Athena · #93, 30y
Baby · #93, 29y
Briana · #93, 31y

Zayn was ranked #93 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys in 2021. 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.

Zayn 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 Zayn without appearing here.

Zayn moved ahead of

Jon Compare
In 2009 they stood at #696 and #696 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #566 and #996.
Colin Compare
In 2010 they stood at #566 and #491 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #315 and #732.
Brent Compare
In 1998 they stood at #669 and #571 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #655 and #1027.
Shea Compare
In 2010 they stood at #566 and #560 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #315 and #652.

Moved ahead of Zayn

Alfred Compare
In 2022 they stood at #352 and #414 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2023 that had become #395 and #272.
Hunter Compare
In 2011 they stood at #315 and #473 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #266 and #238.
Albie Compare
In 2023 they stood at #203 and #243 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2024 that had become #207 and #183.
Hudson Compare
In 2013 they stood at #244 and #268 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #239 and #234.

Moved the opposite way to Zayn

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayn went from #976 to #137 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayn went from #976 to #137 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayn went from #976 to #137 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayn went from #976 to #137 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Zayn

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayn went from #976 to #137 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayn went from #976 to #137 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayn went from #976 to #137 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayn went from #976 to #137 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 5 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #93 in New South Wales, Australia in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Zayn

Zayn at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Zayn across 4 official records

Zayn by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Zayn across 4 official records

Zayn by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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