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How popular is the name Zain?
Births per year, rank history and how many Zains are alive today.
Zain (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 209th in 2025 with 240 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2011, when 459 babies were given the name, the 137th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 250 in 2017 before climbing back to the 209th place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 7,800 babies have been named Zain in England and Wales since 1996. Zain is one spelling of a name also recorded as Zaine, Zane, Zayn and Zayne; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Zain you are most likely to meet is around 2 years old. Half of all Zains born in England and Wales are between 7 and 20, and there are at least 17,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 5.5% chance that at least one of them will be called Zain.
How many babies are named Zain each year?
Includes all spellings: Zain, Zaine, Zane, Zayn, Zayne. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Zain spelling rank?
Where does the Zaine spelling rank?
Where does the Zane spelling rank?
Where does the Zayn spelling rank?
Where does the Zayne spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Zain most popular?
Zain peaked in 2011, when 886 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Zain?
At least 17,000 people named Zain in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Zain?
Most living Zains are between 7 and 20; the most common age is about 2.
Is Zain becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.