Zayed
Zayed was given to 26 boys in 2025, #4,135 among boys’ names; 402 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zayed by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zayed?
#4,135 among boys’ names, 2025
Zayed fell from #3,681 in 2015 to #4,135 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.7 to 15.2 per million.
33 babies in 2018, the peak
Zayed peaked in 2018, when 33 boys were given it, #3,440 among boys’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 79% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,135 | 15.2 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,230 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 15 | #6,208 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,841 | 12.0 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,331 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,442 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 25 | #4,223 | 13.9 |
| 2018 | 33 | #3,440 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 29 | #3,773 | 15.7 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,307 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #3,681 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 19 | #5,057 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,397 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,711 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,994 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,573 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,792 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 9 | #9,003 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,427 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,718 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 7 | #10,129 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #13,197 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,876 | 3.0 |
| 2000 | 7 | #9,094 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zayed a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zayed has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zayed: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zayed, and how old are they?
An estimated 398 Americans named Zayed and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 6 and 14. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 302 people named Zayed (9 women and girls, 293 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 288 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 13,883 babies since 1880, Zayed is the fourth most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 908 babies (2.9%), again the fourth 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 Zayed
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 Zayed and names like it
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