Zaide
Zaide was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,847 among boys’ names; 313 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zaide by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zaide?
#5,847 among boys’ names, 2025
Zaide rose from #10,610 in 2015 to #5,847 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.7 to 9.4 per million.
27 babies in 2008, the peak
Zaide peaked in 2008, when 27 babies were given it (10 boys, #8,307 among boys’ names). The 16 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 16 | #5,847 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 11 | #7,745 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 5 | #14,151 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 11 | #7,749 | |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,454 | 6 | #11,983 |
| 2019 | under 5 | 14 | #6,394 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 7 | #10,729 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 7 | #10,744 | |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,804 | 7 | #10,714 |
| 2015 | 5 | #19,048 | 7 | #10,610 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #16,459 | 10 | #8,108 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,475 | 10 | #8,098 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,435 | 14 | #6,290 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,703 | 19 | #4,975 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 9 | #8,775 | |
| 2009 | 7 | #15,199 | 10 | #8,296 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,733 | 10 | #8,307 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,647 | 11 | #7,572 |
| 2006 | 5 | #20,001 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 6 | #11,443 | |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,779 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,381 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,383 | 6 | #10,640 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 5 | #12,276 | |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,908 | 7 | #8,688 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,553 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Zaide a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 313 Americans recorded as Zaide, 34% are girls and 66% boys. In 2025 it went to 16 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Zaide: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zaide, and how old are they?
An estimated 310 Americans named Zaide and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 378 people named Zaide (219 women and girls, 159 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 259 born in the U.S. The Census count is 46% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Zaide rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,611 babies since 1880, Zaide is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 153 babies (10%), again the third 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 Zaide
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 Zaide and names like it
- Compare Zaide and ZadeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sZaide peaked in 2008.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Zaide.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zaide alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.