Zaid
Zaid was given to 402 boys in 2025, #677 among boys’ names; 7,460 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,370 Americans named Zaid and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zaid by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zaid mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zaid is “a male given name from Arabic.”
Borrowed from Arabic زَيْد (zayd).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zaid?
#677 among boys’ names, 2025
Zaid rose from #889 in 2015 to #677 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.13 to 0.24 per 1,000.
475 babies in 2018, the peak
Zaid peaked in 2018, when 475 boys were given it, #581 among boys’ names. The 402 births of 2025 are 85% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 402 | #677 | 0.24 |
| 2024 | 416 | #661 | 0.24 |
| 2023 | 367 | #726 | 0.21 |
| 2022 | 414 | #662 | 0.24 |
| 2021 | 407 | #666 | 0.23 |
| 2020 | 390 | #669 | 0.23 |
| 2019 | 425 | #635 | 0.24 |
| 2018 | 475 | #581 | 0.26 |
| 2017 | 303 | #775 | 0.16 |
| 2016 | 242 | #900 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 249 | #889 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 221 | #958 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 232 | #901 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 217 | #941 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 183 | #1,041 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 211 | #952 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 200 | #990 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 219 | #931 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 188 | #1,016 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 183 | #1,007 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 164 | #1,030 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 174 | #965 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 159 | #998 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 113 | #1,219 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 89 | #1,410 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 91 | #1,386 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 72 | #1,556 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 66 | #1,600 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 59 | #1,689 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 39 | #2,177 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 50 | #1,776 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 57 | #1,627 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 52 | #1,693 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 35 | #2,208 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 38 | #2,011 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 34 | #2,164 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 21 | #2,982 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 30 | #2,140 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,723 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,885 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 11 | #4,043 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 18 | #2,704 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 18 | #2,674 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,614 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,854 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,612 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 10 | #4,062 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #4,151 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,261 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 13 | #3,075 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,314 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,427 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #5,035 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zaid a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zaid has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zaid: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zaid, and how old are they?
7,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,460 Americans ever recorded as Zaid. The median Zaid alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 6,365 people named Zaid (218 women and girls, 6,147 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,103 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 70 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 432 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,350 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,510 |
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 Zaid born?
The states with the most babies named Zaid are California, Texas and Illinois, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 60 | #520 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 42 | #691 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 33 | #332 | 1.7× |
| New York | 31 | #526 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 24 | #441 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 22 | #727 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 18 | #449 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 16 | #487 | 1.3× |
| Arizona | 14 | #526 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 14 | #707 | 0.6× |
Where Zaid is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zaid is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1969 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Zaid 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 13,883 babies since 1880, Zaid is the most given (54% of them). In 2025 it was given to 402 of their 908 babies (44%), the second 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 Zaid
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 Zaid and names like it
- Compare Zaid and ZaydBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZaid peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zaid since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Zaid: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Zaid.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zaid alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.