Zayne

maleStatistical record

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

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

Zayne: Recorded since 1997, it reached #334 in 2020, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#334highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2022
1998	#2901
1999	#1664
2000	#2501
2004	#2578
2005	#1991
2006	#960
2007	#1440
2008	#1596
2009	#1494
2010	#1171
2011	#781
2012	#765
2013	#603
2014	#680
2015	#646
2016	#790
2017	#888
2018	#665
2019	#707
2020	#668
2021	#632
2022	#600
2023	#494
2024	#552

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 25 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #339 among boys in Northern Ireland, #472 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #535 among boys in Scotland, #552 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2022 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2020–2024
Highest recorded position: #334 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2020 (recorded 2020–2024).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Zayne appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 25 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 856 births with the name.

Zayne across 3 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.

Zayne'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	#2022 (1997)	#494 (2023)	#552 (2024)	25 of 28	856 (1997–2024)	80 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#710 (2017)	#472 (2024)	#829 (2025)	6 of 9	24 (2017–2025)	7 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#334 (2020)	#334 (2020)	#339 (2024)	2 of 5	8 (2020–2024)	4 (2020)

Zayne 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 Zayne in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	15	3 of 10	5
2000s	84	7 of 10	12
2010s	437	10 of 10	44
2020sbusiest	320	5 of 10	64

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 64 births a year.

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

Zayne 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 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #334 in Northern Ireland in 2020.

Zayne'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	#552	69	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#494	80	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#600	62	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#632	58	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#668	51	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#707	47	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#665	52	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#888	35	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#790	41	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#646	53	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#680	49	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#603	57	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#765	42	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#781	39	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1171	22	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1494	15	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1596	13	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1440	15	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#960	24	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1991	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2578	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1664	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2022	5	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#339	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#334	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#472	7	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#584	5	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#710	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#535	5	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 1997 and 2025, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #334, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 80 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2017, and 27 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.

Alby · #334, 29y
Hania · #333, 30y
Ziggy · #333, 29y
Alaina · #336, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Alby · #334, 29y
Briony · #334, 29y
Rion · #334, 26y
Tariq · #334, 29y

Zayne was ranked #334 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2020. 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.

Zayne 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 Zayne without appearing here.

Zayne moved ahead of

Shannon Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2578 and #2304 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #960 and #4052.
Kerry Compare
In 2006 they stood at #2578 and #2578 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1440 and #3589.
Isak Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1440 and #1440 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1596 and #3687.
Aria Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1991 and #1851 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #960 and #2870.

Moved ahead of Zayne

Hunter Compare
In 2006 they stood at #960 and #1643 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1440 and #926.
Arlo Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1664 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #2501 and #2142.
Mathias Compare
In 2023 they stood at #494 and #500 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #552 and #406.
Cillian Compare
In 2013 they stood at #603 and #730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #680 and #550.

Moved the opposite way to Zayne

Aaron Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayne went from #2022 to #552 while Aaron went from #32 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayne went from #2022 to #552 while Adam went from #20 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayne went from #2022 to #552 while Alan went from #179 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayne went from #2022 to #552 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Zayne

Albie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayne went from #2022 to #552 and Albie from #914 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayne went from #2022 to #552 and Alfie from #92 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayne went from #2022 to #552 and Alfred from #192 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayne went from #2022 to #552 and Archie from #141 to #10.

What's not yet available

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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 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #334 in Northern Ireland in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Zayne

Zayne at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Zayne across 3 official records

Zayne by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Zayne at a glance

Zayne across 3 official records

Zayne by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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