Zaiden
Zaiden was given to 466 boys in 2025, #609 among boys’ names; 11,594 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,500 Americans named Zaiden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zaiden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zaiden mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zaiden is “a male given name originating as a coinage.”
Variant of Zayden.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zaiden?
#609 among boys’ names, 2025
Zaiden fell from #373 in 2015 to #609 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.45 to 0.27 per 1,000.
978 babies in 2013, the peak
Zaiden peaked in 2013, when 978 babies were given it (965 boys, #336 among boys’ names). The 466 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 466 | #609 | 0.27 |
| 2024 | 498 | #574 | 0.29 |
| 2023 | 570 | #518 | 0.33 |
| 2022 | 624 | #488 | 0.36 |
| 2021 | 582 | #505 | 0.33 |
| 2020 | 560 | #511 | 0.32 |
| 2019 | 657 | #456 | 0.37 |
| 2018 | 709 | #430 | 0.39 |
| 2017 | 739 | #421 | 0.40 |
| 2016 | 792 | #405 | 0.42 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 868 | #373 | 0.45 |
| 2014 | 962 | #344 | 0.50 |
| 2013 | 965 | #336 | 0.51 |
| 2012 | 635 | #438 | 0.33 |
| 2011 | 535 | #491 | 0.28 |
| 2010 | 399 | #620 | 0.21 |
| 2009 | 298 | #766 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 231 | #905 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 176 | #1,065 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 86 | #1,668 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 78 | #1,720 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 67 | #1,852 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 23 | #3,829 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,492 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #9,223 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #12,091 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zaiden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zaiden has been given almost only to boys: 44 girls in 26 years of records.
Girls and boys named Zaiden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zaiden, and how old are they?
11,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 11,594 Americans ever recorded as Zaiden. The median Zaiden alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 6,503 people named Zaiden (78 women and girls, 6,425 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,371 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,540 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,960 |
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 Zaiden born?
The states with the most babies named Zaiden are Texas, California and New York, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 66 | #513 | 1.2× |
| California | 39 | #707 | 0.5× |
| New York | 33 | #500 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 30 | #584 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 23 | #457 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 22 | #498 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 16 | #626 | 1.1× |
| South Carolina | 15 | #370 | 1.4× |
| Louisiana | 14 | #373 | 1.5× |
| Virginia | 13 | #586 | 0.7× |
Where Zaiden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zaiden is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 2000 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 Zaiden 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 50,657 babies since 1880, Zaiden is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 466 of their 2,393 babies (19%), again the second 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 Zaiden
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 Zaiden and names like it
- Compare Zaiden and ZaydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZaiden peaked in 2013.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zaiden since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Zaiden: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Zaiden.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zaiden alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.