Zaylee is a modern American coinage with no traditional meaning; it combines the fashionable Z opening heard in Zoe and Zayden with the -lee ending from the English surname Lee, which means "meadow". It belongs to the family of invented names such as Kaylee and Paislee that spread through the 2010s. Zaylee had fewer than five births in 2000, entered the top 1000 in 2015, peaked at number 597 in 2018 and ranks 919th in 2025.