Zada
Zada was given to 29 girls in 2025, #4,753 among girls’ names; 3,108 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,700 Americans named Zada and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (55% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zada by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zada?
#4,753 among girls’ names, 2025
Zada fell from #3,210 in 2015 to #4,753 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 29.1 to 18.0 per million.
96 babies in 2006, the peak
Zada peaked in 2006, when 96 girls were given it, #2,068 among girls’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,753 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,944 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,738 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,216 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,236 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,071 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,648 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,492 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,344 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,324 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (120)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 52 | #3,210 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,074 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,568 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,803 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 72 | #2,532 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,201 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 63 | #2,823 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 69 | #2,688 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,683 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 96 | #2,068 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 95 | #2,002 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,477 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,605 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 70 | #2,326 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 70 | #2,298 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,328 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,195 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,576 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,273 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 16 | #6,056 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,754 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,732 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,778 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,459 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,866 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,462 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #9,059 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,988 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,695 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,615 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,893 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,298 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,189 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,885 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,724 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,154 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,591 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,370 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,711 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,419 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,174 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,345 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,237 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,427 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,595 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,197 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,692 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,979 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,555 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 25 | #1,590 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 22 | #1,683 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,223 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 20 | #1,783 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 25 | #1,506 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 27 | #1,448 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 22 | #1,650 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,158 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 32 | #1,318 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 22 | #1,683 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,319 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 28 | #1,485 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 36 | #1,287 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,557 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 38 | #1,278 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 43 | #1,195 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 30 | #1,565 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 42 | #1,212 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 25 | #1,729 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 36 | #1,340 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 37 | #1,280 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 37 | #1,269 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 33 | #1,359 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 41 | #1,125 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 44 | #1,058 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 37 | #1,139 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,540 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 28 | #1,038 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 30 | #937 | 0.05 |
| 1911 | 17 | #1,112 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 35 | #722 | 0.09 |
| 1909 | 18 | #989 | 0.05 |
| 1908 | 21 | #880 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 16 | #988 | 0.05 |
| 1906 | 20 | #843 | 0.07 |
| 1905 | 17 | #923 | 0.06 |
| 1904 | 17 | #909 | 0.06 |
| 1903 | 21 | #758 | 0.08 |
| 1902 | 17 | #870 | 0.06 |
| 1901 | 15 | #880 | 0.06 |
| 1900 | 25 | #741 | 0.08 |
| 1899 | 14 | #905 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 19 | #789 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 29 | #566 | 0.12 |
| 1896 | 15 | #871 | 0.06 |
| 1895 | 11 | #1,052 | 0.05 |
| 1894 | 21 | #663 | 0.09 |
| 1893 | 15 | #792 | 0.07 |
| 1892 | 15 | #794 | 0.07 |
| 1891 | 17 | #668 | 0.09 |
| 1890 | 9 | #1,004 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 12 | #800 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 16 | #662 | 0.09 |
| 1887 | 12 | #692 | 0.08 |
| 1886 | 12 | #691 | 0.08 |
| 1885 | 7 | #919 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 11 | #683 | 0.09 |
| 1883 | 11 | #613 | 0.10 |
| 1882 | 9 | #676 | 0.08 |
| 1881 | 8 | #678 | 0.09 |
| 1880 | 13 | #491 | 0.14 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zada a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zada has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 120 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zada: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zada, and how old are they?
1,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 55% of the 3,108 Americans ever recorded as Zada. The median Zada alive today is 19 years old; half are between 12 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,613 people named Zada (1,602 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,656 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 100 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 103 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 25 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 48 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 941 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 481 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Zada born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 5 | #2,473 | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Zada with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,434 babies since 1880, Zada is the third most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 233 babies (12%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zada
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Zada and names like it
- Compare Zada and ZaidaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sZada peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zada since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Zada.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zada alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.