Zoraida
Zoraida was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,928 among girls’ names; 2,092 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,910 Americans named Zoraida and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 35 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zoraida by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zoraida mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zoraida is “a female given name from Spanish.”
Borrowed from Spanish Zoraida.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zoraida?
#14,928 among girls’ names, 2025
Zoraida fell from #8,925 in 2015 to #14,928 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.3 to 3.7 per million.
62 babies in 1961, the peak
Zoraida peaked in 1961, when 62 girls were given it, #1,426 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,928 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,262 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,604 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,375 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 8 | #12,191 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 9 | #11,077 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,437 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,535 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,771 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,769 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,925 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,920 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 5 | #19,260 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,190 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,718 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,178 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,965 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,520 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,811 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,863 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 11 | #10,116 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,881 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,768 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,827 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,715 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,145 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,212 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 17 | #6,066 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,276 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,877 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,215 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,108 | 14.6 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,871 | 15.5 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,575 | 16.8 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,533 | 16.5 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,903 | 14.2 |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,158 | 18.4 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,799 | 14.0 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,096 | 17.8 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,132 | 17.5 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,417 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,572 | 22.0 |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,719 | 19.8 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,644 | 21.3 |
| 1981 | 42 | #2,374 | 25.2 |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,438 | 24.1 |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,723 | 20.6 |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,091 | 30.0 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,081 | 17.0 |
| 1976 | 33 | #2,485 | 22.5 |
| 1975 | 40 | #2,168 | 27.4 |
| 1974 | 51 | #1,771 | 34.8 |
| 1973 | 50 | #1,772 | 34.3 |
| 1972 | 43 | #1,945 | 28.3 |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,339 | 20.4 |
| 1970 | 49 | #1,827 | 28.0 |
| 1969 | 55 | #1,634 | 32.6 |
| 1968 | 43 | #1,833 | 26.2 |
| 1967 | 61 | #1,427 | 36.9 |
| 1966 | 61 | #1,415 | 36.0 |
| 1965 | 52 | #1,560 | 29.5 |
| 1964 | 54 | #1,558 | 28.5 |
| 1963 | 55 | #1,521 | 28.5 |
| 1962 | 57 | #1,495 | 29.0 |
| 1961 | 62 | #1,426 | 30.7 |
| 1960 | 54 | #1,521 | 26.7 |
| 1959 | 36 | #1,879 | 17.8 |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,983 | 15.9 |
| 1957 | 30 | #2,026 | 14.7 |
| 1956 | 36 | #1,794 | 17.9 |
| 1955 | 28 | #2,061 | 14.3 |
| 1954 | 24 | #2,238 | 12.4 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,361 | 11.2 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,804 | 8.6 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,935 | 7.8 |
| 1950 | 13 | #3,050 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,890 | 5.3 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,339 | 5.4 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,373 | 7.7 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,805 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zoraida a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zoraida has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 80 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zoraida: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zoraida, and how old are they?
1,910 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 2,092 Americans ever recorded as Zoraida. The median Zoraida alive today is 50 years old; half are between 35 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 5,648 people named Zoraida (5,637 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,910 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 447 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 663 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 463 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 214 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 120 |
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 Zoraida born?
The states with the most babies named Zoraida are New York, California and New Jersey, with 81% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 738 | not ranked | 4.5× |
| California | 113 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 106 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 101 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 82 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Connecticut | 10 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Zoraida is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zoraida is most over-represented in New York: since 1918 it was given 4.5 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 girls’ 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 Zoraida with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zoraida
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 Zoraida and names like it
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- The most given names of the 1960sZoraida peaked in 1961.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zoraida since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Zoraida: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Zoraida.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Zoraida alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.