Ziyad
Ziyad was given to 52 boys in 2025, #2,571 among boys’ names; 1,052 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Ziyad and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ziyad by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ziyad mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ziyad is “a male given name from Arabic.”
Borrowed from Arabic زِيَاد (ziyād).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ziyad?
#2,571 among boys’ names, 2025
Ziyad fell from #2,298 in 2015 to #2,571 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 30.3 to 30.4 per million.
58 babies in 2015, the peak
Ziyad peaked in 2015, when 58 boys were given it, #2,298 among boys’ names. The 52 births of 2025 are 90% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52 | #2,571 | 30.4 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,212 | 22.1 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,113 | 23.4 |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,000 | 24.1 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,071 | 22.9 |
| 2020 | 53 | #2,465 | 30.7 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,049 | 22.3 |
| 2018 | 35 | #3,297 | 19.3 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,004 | 21.6 |
| 2016 | 46 | #2,687 | 24.2 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,298 | 30.3 |
| 2014 | 54 | #2,399 | 28.1 |
| 2013 | 36 | #3,118 | 19.0 |
| 2012 | 45 | #2,714 | 23.7 |
| 2011 | 47 | #2,624 | 24.7 |
| 2010 | 42 | #2,872 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 38 | #3,103 | 19.2 |
| 2008 | 29 | #3,740 | 14.2 |
| 2007 | 26 | #4,007 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,857 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 27 | #3,609 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,512 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,270 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,909 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 12 | #6,002 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,381 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,522 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,468 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 8 | #7,273 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,605 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,847 | 8.9 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,959 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 9 | #6,219 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,808 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #9,481 | 2.4 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,418 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,847 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,579 | 2.7 |
| 1981 | 6 | #6,258 | 3.3 |
| 1979 | 6 | #6,053 | 3.5 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,855 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,583 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ziyad a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ziyad has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ziyad: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ziyad, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,052 Americans ever recorded as Ziyad. The median Ziyad alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,003 people named Ziyad (2 women and girls, 1,001 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 791 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% above 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 | 16 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 81 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 371 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 570 |
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, Ziyad is the second most given (45% of them). In 2025 it was given to 52 of their 95 babies (55%), 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 Ziyad
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 Ziyad and names like it
- Compare Ziyad and ZiadBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZiyad peaked in 2015.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ziyad since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Ziyad: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Ziyad.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ziyad alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.