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Zaida

#2,932 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Zayd

Zaida has been given to 3,929 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #2,932 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 114 recorded.

Babies named Zaida, 2025

1 in 57,200

Zaida over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zaida: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Zayd

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zaida means

Zaida is a feminine form of Zayd.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Zaida is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zayd.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Zaida is pronounced /ˈθaida/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,929 girls were recorded with the name Zaida between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 114 in 2011; its best national rank was #826 in 1881.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,892 in 2020 to #2,932 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,317 in 2015 to #2,932 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 Zaida?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 57,200
58 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 27,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,932
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
39,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zaida sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 39,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zaida. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zaidas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zaida was born before 2003 — so the typical Zaida is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
22.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,729
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 22.8% of all recorded uses (896).

Is Zaida 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
−442
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,040
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−615
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.72×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.9%
Peak was 2011 (114)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#826
1881

Spellings of Zaida

Zaida is not the most common spelling — Wanda is, with 24.2% against Zaida's 0.34%.

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 Zaida is used

Across 2016–2025, Zaida was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 25,210 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

26 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 16,667
  2. 2Arizona1 in 25,000
  3. 3California1 in 25,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 25,000
  5. 5New York1 in 25,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 33,333
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Zaida around the world

Where Zaida 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
    2005–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1961–2025
    #5,220
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Notable people named Zaida

People whose public names include Zaida, 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.

Zaida by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,932
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,040
Best rank ever
#826
1881
Peak year
2011
114 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,929
Count in 2025
58

Names similar to Zaida

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

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Names with a curve like Zaida

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

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Sibling names for Zaida

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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