boys:
142 births since 2009
#4444 (3rd percentile)
overall:
142 births since 2009
#7597 (2nd percentile)
The name Zailen is the #7,597 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 142 recorded births since 2009. This represents the 1.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,444 (3.0% percentile) for all time with 142 births since 2009.
Zailen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2009 (first recorded for boys in 2009).
For boys, Zailen reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #871) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Zailen ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 74.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zailen".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Zailen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Zailen is pronounced as ZAY-luhn, which has 2 syllables.
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