# Zain (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/zain/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10,243 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 9,918 / 325 (3% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 7,882, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | 19,526 |
| 2012 | 12 | 9,699 |
| 2013 | 20 | 6,455 |
| 2014 | 21 | 6,201 |
| 2015 | 15 | 7,999 |
| 2016 | 21 | 6,179 |
| 2017 | 10 | 10,669 |
| 2018 | 20 | 6,237 |
| 2019 | 24 | 5,445 |
| 2020 | 12 | 8,936 |
| 2021 | 9 | 11,118 |
| 2022 | 13 | 8,519 |
| 2023 | 7 | 13,419 |
| 2024 | 12 | 8,932 |
| 2025 | 8 | 11,911 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 308 | 736 |
| 2012 | 330 | 717 |
| 2013 | 364 | 664 |
| 2014 | 373 | 679 |
| 2015 | 346 | 718 |
| 2016 | 367 | 684 |
| 2017 | 399 | 650 |
| 2018 | 466 | 588 |
| 2019 | 526 | 539 |
| 2020 | 485 | 574 |
| 2021 | 476 | 587 |
| 2022 | 536 | 558 |
| 2023 | 532 | 551 |
| 2024 | 533 | 557 |
| 2025 | 522 | 567 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 3 | 4,798 |
| 2015 | 3 | 5,730 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,609 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2019 | 3 | 5,591 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,891 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 459 | 137 |
| 2012 | 361 | 161 |
| 2013 | 281 | 198 |
| 2014 | 316 | 176 |
| 2015 | 280 | 207 |
| 2016 | 242 | 232 |
| 2017 | 214 | 250 |
| 2018 | 213 | 244 |
| 2019 | 252 | 202 |
| 2020 | 203 | 235 |
| 2021 | 228 | 224 |
| 2022 | 242 | 211 |
| 2023 | 233 | 211 |
| 2024 | 264 | 189 |
| 2025 | 240 | 209 |

## People named Zain

- Zain Retherford, American wrestler (born 1995)
- Zayn Malik, English singer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.