girls:
105 births since 2010
#5611 (2nd percentile)
boys:
157 births since 2007
#4429 (3rd percentile)
overall:
262 births since 2007
#7477 (3rd percentile)
The name Zaylyn is the #7,477 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 262 recorded births since 2007. This represents the 3.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,429 (3.4% percentile) for all time with 157 births since 2007. For girls, it ranks #5,611 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 105 births since 2010.
Zaylyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2007 (2007 for boys and 2010 for girls). Birth data for Zaylyn is available in 16 out of the 17 years between 2007 and 2023 (16 years for boys and 12 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Zaylyn has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (59.9% of all recorded births). In 2023, 67.9% of babies named Zaylyn were boys.
For boys, Zaylyn reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #909) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Zaylyn is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #897 (1.5% percentile) with 10 births per million.
For girls, Zaylyn reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #933) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Zaylyn ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 55.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zaylyn".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Zaylyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.6% confident that Zaylyn is pronounced as ZAY-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ZAY-luhn, at 15.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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