The name reached its all-time peak in 2014 with 2,231 births ranking #188. FALLING Recent data shows the name is currently falling.
Zayden is an invented modern name built on the fashionable -den sound pattern. It belongs to the same naming wave as Jayden, Hayden and similar late-modern forms.
Behind the Name explicitly treats Zayden as a contemporary creation rather than an inherited traditional name. Its popularity comes from sound and style, not from one older etymological root.