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Zailee

Feminine

2005high 2022
#3645 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare41 girls in 2025

Zailee belongs to the Za- family of recent American naming and takes the -lee ending. Its whole design is a rare opening letter and a familiar close.

How old is the name Zailee?

Zailee first appears in US birth records in 2005 — 20 years ago. The typical Zailee is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 500 people named Zailee are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Zailee most popular?

Zailee peaked in 2022, reaching #3470 nationally. Today it ranks #3645, 175 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.

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Where it comes from

Our story of Zailee

Ours, offered as ours. English has almost no names beginning with Z, which is why the letter has become one of the most efficient tools in modern American naming — a Z name is distinctive before the reader has got past the first character. Zailee pairs that with an ending shared by a dozen very familiar names, so the whole thing stays readable. Rare at the front, familiar at the back, and nothing behind it but the arithmetic.

Meaningnot established

Not established

No source language is established. The construction is documented: a Zay- and Zai- opening shared with Zayden, Zaylee and Zayla in American records, and a -lee ending descended from Old English leah but working here as a modern suffix.

Pronouncing Zailee

ZAY-lee

Two syllables, first stressed. Zailee, Zaylee and Zaylie are said identically.

Nicknames for Zailee

Moderate

ZaiThe front clip
LeeTakes the ending
ZazaA doubled household form used affectionately
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 2005–202545230454120052025

US babies named Zailee per year from 2005 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#34702000s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
2005
Most girls named
202245 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#3470reached in 2022
Change vs 2024
+5.1%41 in 2025, from 39
Zailee sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2022, with 45 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

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.

Zailee in other languages

Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Georgia.

Zailees among us

500

people named Zailee are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 39,202 born in 2025 was named Zailee

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Zailee

#3645
Zailee on the 2025 chart
#649
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Zailee went to 41 girls in 2025, but Zaylee is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 327, which makes it the 649th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,996 places above the chart.

About 1 girl in 4,915 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 39,202 for Zailee 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

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Is it right for you

The Yaira test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Zailee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Yaira climbed just as high around 2003, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Yaira's path sketches the road Zailee is walking now.

40%chance Zailee will feel “very 2020s” by 2040
Zailee, aligned on its peakYaira· peak 2003not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-30 yrs+20 yrsYaira · #8498Zailee today
Zailee today is about where Yaira stood in 2006 — 3 years past a #3472-sized peak. By 2021, Yaira had settled around #8498.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Zailee 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 Zailee is headed

20052030

US babies named Zailee per year, 2005 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Zailee should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.

Steady+5% by 2030projected around #3,635 in 2030

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.

Zailee beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Zailee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Zaileethis name41#3645Elenor41#3645Azucena41#3645Alaura41#3645Judah41#3645

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • The initial Z keeps it distinct on any list.
  • Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
  • Six letters and two syllables, quick to write.
What to consider
  • Zaylee, Zailee and Zayleigh are all in use and none is dominant.
  • It sits in a very crowded group of -lee ending girls' names.
  • There is no documented meaning, only a construction.

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Frequently asked

How many Zailees are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Zailee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Zailee?
Zailee is one of 2 recorded spellings. Zaylee is the more common one — 286 births in 2025 against 41 for Zailee.
How popular is the name Zailee in 2025?
Zailee ranks #3645 among US girl names in 2025, with 41 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Zailee?
About 1 in every 39,202 US girls born in 2025 was named Zailee — 41 in all.
Will my child share the name Zailee with classmates?
Zailee will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Zailee

Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.

Elenor#3645 · Azucena#3645 · Alaura#3645 · Judah#3645 · Rylen#3645 · Zamiyah#3645 · Naiara#3645 · Marietta#3645

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