Mazen
Masculine · “rain clouds”
Mazin is rain clouds in Arabic — specifically the clouds that carry water — and it was a pre-Islamic tribal name.
How old is the name Mazen?
Mazen first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Mazen alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 1,400 people named Mazen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mazen most popular?
Mazen peaked in 2024, reaching #2210 nationally. Today it ranks #2539, 329 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From mazin to Mazen
The story of Mazen
Arabic distinguishes clouds by whether they carry rain, and mazin names the ones that do — a distinction that matters where water does. Mazin ibn al-Ghadubah is remembered in Omani tradition as an early convert. The name is standard across Arabic naming and is in current American use.
Meaning
rain clouds
From the Arabic mazin, 'rain clouds' or 'clouds bearing water'. The word is specific to the productive kind of cloud, which matters in a desert. Mazin was a pre-Islamic Arab tribal name. The Arabic is documented and the reading undisputed.
How the name formed
- mazin
- Mazen
Related forms: مازن · Mazin
Pronouncing Mazen
MAH-zin
Two syllables, stress on the first. Arabic gives the first vowel a longer value.
Nicknames for Mazen
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1971
- Most boys named
- 202465 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2210reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −20.0%52 in 2025, from 65
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Mazen in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- مازن in Arabic — transliteration
- Mazin in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, California, Texas.
Mazens among us
people named Mazen are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 32,848 born in 2025 was named Mazen
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Mazen
- #2539
- Mazen on the 2025 chart
- #808
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Mazen went to 52 boys in 2025, but Masen and Macen are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 120, which makes it the 808th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,731 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 14,234 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 32,848 for Mazen itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Traven test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Mazen's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Traven climbed just as high around 1995, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Traven's path sketches the road Mazen is walking now.
Mazen sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Mazen is headed
Mazen should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Mazen beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Mazen in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That Arabic has a word for specifically rain-bearing clouds is a first-rate piece of vocabulary.
- Maz is available as a sharp short form.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk in English.
- Mazin and Mazen are both in circulation.
- It reads as specifically Arabic.
- The Zen ending collides with a Buddhist term.
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Masculine · #2539 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Mazens are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Mazen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Mazen?
- Mazen is the most-used spelling in US records — 52 of the 120 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Masen and Macen.
- How popular is the name Mazen in 2025?
- Mazen ranks #2539 among US boy names in 2025, with 52 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Mazen?
- About 1 in every 32,848 US boys born in 2025 was named Mazen — 52 in all.
- Will my child share the name Mazen with classmates?
- Mazen will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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