Zaida
Zaida was given to 58 girls in 2025, #2,932 among girls’ names; 3,929 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,620 Americans named Zaida and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 12 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zaida by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zaida mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Zaida is “a female given name”
/ˈθaida/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zaida?
#2,932 among girls’ names, 2025
Zaida fell from #2,317 in 2015 to #2,932 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 45.4 to 36.1 per million.
114 babies in 2011, the peak
Zaida peaked in 2011, when 114 girls were given it, #1,787 among girls’ names. The 58 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | #2,932 | 36.1 |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,490 | 45.1 |
| 2023 | 82 | #2,268 | 51.1 |
| 2022 | 78 | #2,387 | 47.6 |
| 2021 | 89 | #2,130 | 54.2 |
| 2020 | 102 | #1,892 | 63.1 |
| 2019 | 69 | #2,560 | 41.1 |
| 2018 | 71 | #2,504 | 41.7 |
| 2017 | 89 | #2,159 | 51.6 |
| 2016 | 78 | #2,411 | 44.0 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 81 | #2,317 | 45.4 |
| 2014 | 91 | #2,128 | 50.9 |
| 2013 | 102 | #1,950 | 58.1 |
| 2012 | 91 | #2,114 | 51.7 |
| 2011 | 114 | #1,787 | 64.8 |
| 2010 | 103 | #1,958 | 57.9 |
| 2009 | 100 | #2,063 | 54.4 |
| 2008 | 99 | #2,076 | 52.4 |
| 2007 | 111 | #1,885 | 57.7 |
| 2006 | 91 | #2,148 | 47.9 |
| 2005 | 107 | #1,836 | 57.9 |
| 2004 | 84 | #2,150 | 45.7 |
| 2003 | 84 | #2,102 | 46.0 |
| 2002 | 74 | #2,247 | 41.2 |
| 2001 | 80 | #2,091 | 44.4 |
| 2000 | 66 | #2,369 | 36.3 |
| 1999 | 73 | #2,111 | 41.2 |
| 1998 | 69 | #2,120 | 39.1 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,100 | 22.4 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,499 | 18.8 |
| 1995 | 52 | #2,480 | 29.6 |
| 1994 | 47 | #2,655 | 26.3 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,384 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 42 | #2,863 | 22.8 |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,927 | 21.3 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,516 | 16.3 |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,156 | 18.4 |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,299 | 16.8 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,853 | 13.2 |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,971 | 18.7 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,515 | 14.5 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,724 | 13.1 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,685 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,416 | 14.8 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,339 | 15.6 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,505 | 14.5 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,234 | 16.2 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,776 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,836 | 18.9 |
| 1976 | 25 | #3,000 | 17.1 |
| 1975 | 38 | #2,231 | 26.1 |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,613 | 19.8 |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,504 | 20.6 |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,275 | 22.4 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,506 | 11.4 |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,521 | 17.2 |
| 1969 | 23 | #2,842 | 13.6 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,788 | 13.4 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,780 | 12.7 |
| 1966 | 37 | #1,915 | 21.9 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,682 | 12.5 |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,409 | 14.2 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,778 | 10.9 |
| 1962 | 38 | #1,887 | 19.3 |
| 1961 | 24 | #2,539 | 11.9 |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,901 | 9.4 |
| 1959 | 33 | #1,983 | 16.3 |
| 1958 | 25 | #2,317 | 12.4 |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,216 | 12.7 |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,055 | 14.4 |
| 1955 | 21 | #2,470 | 10.7 |
| 1954 | 28 | #2,025 | 14.4 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,267 | 6.9 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,199 | 7.0 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,808 | 8.3 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,232 | 7.0 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,608 | 5.8 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,445 | 6.2 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,234 | 3.8 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,988 | 4.5 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,269 | 8.4 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,241 | 4.4 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,270 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,281 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,965 | 4.9 |
| 1924 | 6 | #5,053 | 4.8 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,663 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,951 | 6.7 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,808 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,577 | 4.3 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,875 | 10.2 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,496 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,430 | 8.1 |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,183 | 9.2 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,435 | 9.0 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,786 | 12.6 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,428 | 15.0 |
| 1903 | 5 | #2,077 | 19.1 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,546 | 25.6 |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,232 | 35.9 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,277 | 33.6 |
| 1886 | 8 | #893 | 55.4 |
| 1885 | 8 | #840 | 60.1 |
| 1881 | 6 | #826 | 65.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zaida a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zaida has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 104 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zaida: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zaida, and how old are they?
3,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 3,929 Americans ever recorded as Zaida. The median Zaida alive today is 21 years old; half are between 12 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 6,404 people named Zaida (6,385 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,212 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 295 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 398 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 495 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,370 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,060 |
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 Zaida born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #2,382 | 1.3× |
| California | 5 | #3,520 | 1.0× |
Where Zaida is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zaida is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 2.1 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 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 Zaida 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 10,224 babies since 1880, Zaida is the most given (38% of them). In 2025 it was given to 58 of their 155 babies (37%), again the most given.
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 Zaida
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 Zaida and names like it
- Compare Zaida and ZadaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZaida peaked in 2011.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zaida since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Zaida: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Zaida.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zaida alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.