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Zaid

#677 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Zayd

Zaid has been given to 7,460 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #677 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 475 recorded.

Babies named Zaid, 2025

1 in 8,250

Zaid over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zaid: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Zayd

Arabic

What Zaid means

Zaid is a alternate transcription of Zayd.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Zaid → Zayd. The family’s meaning is “growth”, recorded in the naming reference for Zayd.

Origin, language, and formation

Zaid is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Zaid comes through Arabic زَيْد.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zayd.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,460 boys were recorded with the name Zaid between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 475 in 2018; its best national rank was #581 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #669 in 2020 to #677 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #889 in 2015 to #677 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 Zaid?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 8,250
402 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 4,250
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#677
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,717 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zaid 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 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,717 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zaid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zaids were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zaid was born before 2016 — so the typical Zaid is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,460
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.0% of all recorded uses (2,758).

Is Zaid 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
−16
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−8
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+212
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.61×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
84.6%
Peak was 2018 (475)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#581
2018

Spellings of Zaid

Zaid is not the most common spelling — David is, with 90.6% against Zaid's 0.18%.

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 Zaid is used

Across 2016–2025, Zaid was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 2,381 boys, against 1 in 4,158 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in 33,333).

342 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 2,381
  2. 2Arizona1 in 2,500
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 2,564
  4. 4New York1 in 2,857
  5. 5Texas1 in 2,857
  6. 6California1 in 3,333
  7. 7Virginia1 in 3,448
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 3,846

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.

Geographically, Zaid is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 55% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Zaid around the world

Where Zaid 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
    #376
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2003–2025
    #441
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2024–2024
    #404
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2011–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    1965–2025
    #740
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #414
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1974–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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

Notable people named Zaid

People whose public names include Zaid, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Zaid in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Zaid. Linked forms have their own page here.

Zaid العاوي

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Zaid by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#677
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 8
Best rank ever
#581
2018
Peak year
2018
475 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,460
Count in 2025
402

Names similar to Zaid

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

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Names with a curve like Zaid

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Zaid, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Zaid

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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