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Zahid

#3,179 in 2025Boys' name

To abstain, to renounce, through زَاهِد

Zahid has been given to 1,126 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #3,179 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 64 recorded.

Babies named Zahid, 2025

1 in 87,200

Zahid over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zahid: meaning, origin, and history

To abstain, to renounce, through زَاهِد

Arabic

What Zahid means

Zahid belongs to the name family reached through Zahid → زَاهِد. Its meaning is “to abstain, to renounce”.

Origin, language, and formation

Zahid is used in Azerbaijani and Indonesian. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include زَاهِد.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Indonesian, Zahid is pronounced /ˈzahid/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,126 boys were recorded with the name Zahid between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 64 in 2022; its best national rank was #2,267 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,416 in 2020 to #3,179 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,296 in 2015 to #3,179 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Zahid?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 87,200
38 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 44,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,179
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
60,472 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zahid sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 60,472 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zahid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zahids were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zahid was born before 2012 — so the typical Zahid is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,126
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Choose a decade

2010s — 29.9% of all recorded uses (337).

Is Zahid rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−467
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−763
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+117
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
59.4%
Peak was 2022 (64)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,267
2022

Spellings of Zahid

Zahid is not the most common spelling — David is, with 97.8% against Zahid's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Zahid is used

Across 2016–2025, Zahid was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 38,596 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 16,667
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 33,333
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Arizona1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Zahid around the world

Where Zahid ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1978–1985
    #253
    in 1985
  • France
    1987–2025
    #3,018
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #1,817
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2005–2005
    #643
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Zahid by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,179
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 763
Best rank ever
#2,267
2022
Peak year
2022
64 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,126
Count in 2025
38

Names similar to Zahid

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Zahid

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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