Zayne

Zayne lands with a sharp Z and a soft sigh, a modernized spelling of Zane that leans on an Arabic root, Zayn, meaning beauty or grace, while also echoing the American western novelist Zane Grey. Zayn Malik's decade in the spotlight did no small favor for the name's momentum, and at rank 447 it's comfortably inside the middle of the U.S. chart. One syllable, but a rich one, opening bright and closing on a long vowel that gives it carry. Contemporary, stylish, and just a touch brooding, the kind of name that looks as good on a birth announcement as on a concert ticket.