Ziad
Ziad was given to 43 boys in 2025, #2,939 among boys’ names; 1,115 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Ziad and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ziad by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ziad?
#2,939 among boys’ names, 2025
Ziad rose from #3,227 in 2015 to #2,939 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 18.8 to 25.2 per million.
44 babies in 2019, the peak
Ziad peaked in 2019, when 44 boys were given it, #2,849 among boys’ names. The 43 births of 2025 are 98% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #2,939 | 25.2 |
| 2024 | 28 | #3,982 | 16.3 |
| 2023 | 25 | #4,338 | 14.6 |
| 2022 | 36 | #3,339 | 20.6 |
| 2021 | 30 | #3,732 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 42 | #2,884 | 24.3 |
| 2019 | 44 | #2,849 | 24.5 |
| 2018 | 43 | #2,846 | 23.7 |
| 2017 | 31 | #3,581 | 16.7 |
| 2016 | 36 | #3,227 | 19.0 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,227 | 18.8 |
| 2014 | 36 | #3,151 | 18.7 |
| 2013 | 29 | #3,657 | 15.3 |
| 2012 | 28 | #3,802 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 32 | #3,431 | 16.8 |
| 2010 | 30 | #3,630 | 15.6 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,548 | 15.6 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,708 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 25 | #4,123 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,218 | 11.2 |
| 2005 | 36 | #2,955 | 18.0 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,257 | 10.6 |
| 2003 | 23 | #3,832 | 11.6 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,907 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 37 | #2,612 | 19.0 |
| 2000 | 22 | #3,757 | 11.2 |
| 1999 | 23 | #3,474 | 12.0 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,192 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 23 | #3,255 | 12.2 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,604 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 12 | #5,117 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,319 | 10.9 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,440 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,651 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,997 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,160 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,520 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,193 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,195 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,919 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,691 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,966 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,409 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,480 | 7.2 |
| 1981 | 10 | #4,149 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,613 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 6 | #6,052 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 7 | #5,054 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,578 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,582 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,460 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,224 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ziad a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ziad has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ziad: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ziad, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,115 Americans ever recorded as Ziad. The median Ziad alive today is 17 years old; half are between 8 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 2,323 people named Ziad (14 women and girls, 2,309 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 905 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 47 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 187 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 401 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 456 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,324 babies since 1880, Ziad is the most given (48% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 95 babies (45%), the second 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 Ziad
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 Ziad and names like it
- Compare Ziad and ZiyadBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZiad peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ziad since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Ziad.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ziad alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.