girls:
16 births since 2005
#5700 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.9k births since 1988
#2882 (37th percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 1988
#5862 (24th percentile)
The name Zaine is the #5,862 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,899 recorded births since 1988. This represents the 24.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,882 (37.1% percentile) for all time with 1,883 births since 1988. For girls, it ranks #5,700 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 2005.
Zaine first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1988 (1988 for boys and 2005 for girls).
The name Zaine has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Zaine reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 11.1% percentile (ranked #805) with 51 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 51 births per million (ranked 11.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Zaine ranks #833 for boys (8.6% percentile) with 45 births per million, which is 88.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Zaine reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #983) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2011.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zaine".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Zaine is pronounced as zayn, which has 1 syllables.
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