Zayd
Zayd was given to 442 boys in 2025, #633 among boys’ names; 4,895 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,850 Americans named Zayd and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zayd by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zayd mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zayd 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 Zayd?
#633 among boys’ names, 2025
Zayd rose from #1,074 in 2015 to #633 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.10 to 0.26 per 1,000.
442 babies in 2025, the peak
Zayd peaked in 2025, when 442 boys were given it, #633 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 397 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 442 | #633 | 0.26 |
| 2024 | 397 | #684 | 0.23 |
| 2023 | 361 | #732 | 0.21 |
| 2022 | 356 | #730 | 0.20 |
| 2021 | 304 | #806 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 301 | #780 | 0.17 |
| 2019 | 283 | #809 | 0.16 |
| 2018 | 248 | #883 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 225 | #933 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 171 | #1,133 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 185 | #1,074 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 165 | #1,152 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 143 | #1,242 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 123 | #1,375 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 140 | #1,243 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 132 | #1,308 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 107 | #1,544 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 77 | #1,898 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 85 | #1,759 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 88 | #1,637 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 89 | #1,570 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 70 | #1,800 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 65 | #1,841 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 66 | #1,766 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 54 | #2,002 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 41 | #2,373 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,827 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 23 | #3,385 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,731 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 19 | #3,671 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 21 | #3,297 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,759 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #10,154 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,421 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,932 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,665 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,606 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #7,257 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,332 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,279 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,220 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zayd a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zayd has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 41 years of records.
Girls and boys named Zayd: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zayd, and how old are they?
4,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,895 Americans ever recorded as Zayd. The median Zayd alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 2,453 people named Zayd (30 women and girls, 2,423 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,780 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 100 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,180 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,560 |
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 Zayd born?
The states with the most babies named Zayd are California, New York and Texas, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 50 | #601 | 1.1× |
| New York | 46 | #386 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 45 | #669 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 28 | #620 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 25 | #446 | 1.4× |
| Minnesota | 24 | #262 | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #488 | 1.6× |
| Ohio | 20 | #540 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 19 | #427 | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 19 | #460 | 0.9× |
Where Zayd is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zayd is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1974 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 Zayd 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, Zayd is the second most given (35% of them). In 2025 it was given to 442 of their 908 babies (49%), the 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 Zayd
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 Zayd and names like it
- Compare Zayd and ZaidBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZayd peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zayd since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Zayd: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Zayd.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zayd alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.