Zayde
Zayde was given to 32 boys in 2025, #3,580 among boys’ names; 532 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zayde by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zayde?
#3,580 among boys’ names, 2025
Zayde rose from #3,877 in 2015 to #3,580 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 14.6 to 18.7 per million.
53 babies in 2022, the peak
Zayde peaked in 2022, when 53 babies were given it (48 boys, #2,750 among boys’ names). The 32 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #3,580 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 49 | #2,713 | 28.4 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,213 | 15.2 |
| 2022 | 48 | #2,750 | 27.5 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,176 | 21.7 |
| 2020 | 41 | #2,923 | 23.8 |
| 2019 | 33 | #3,491 | 18.4 |
| 2018 | 24 | #4,347 | 13.2 |
| 2017 | 19 | #5,103 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 24 | #4,323 | 12.6 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,877 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,723 | 8.3 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,976 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,295 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,818 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 12 | #7,072 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,326 | 9.1 |
| 2008 | 7 | #11,013 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 5 | #14,366 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #14,005 | 2.4 |
| 2004 | 6 | #11,332 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #12,465 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zayde a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 532 Americans recorded as Zayde, 8% are girls and 92% boys. In 2025 it went to 32 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 Zayde: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zayde, and how old are they?
An estimated 528 Americans named Zayde 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 12. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 329 people named Zayde (85 women and girls, 244 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 301 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
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, Zayde is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 153 babies (21%), 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 Zayde
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 Zayde and names like it
- Compare Zayde and ZadeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZayde peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zayde since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Zayde.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zayde alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.