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Zayd

#633 in 2025Boys' name

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Zayd has been given to 4,895 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #633 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 442 recorded.

Babies named Zayd, 2025

1 in 7,500

Zayd over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zayd: meaning, origin, and history

Growth

Arabic

What Zayd means

Zayd means “growth”.

Origin, language, and formation

Zayd is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Zayd comes through Arabic زَيْد.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,890 boys were recorded with the name Zayd between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 442 in 2025; its best national rank was #633 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #780 in 2020 to #633 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,074 in 2015 to #633 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Zayd between 2020 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2020; its best national rank was #17,477 in 2020.

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 Zayd?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 7,500
442 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 3,860
0.03% of boys
Rank, 2025
#633
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,200 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zayd 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 5,200 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zayd. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zayds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zayd was born before 2018 — so the typical Zayd is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
44.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,890
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 44.2% of all recorded uses (2,161).

Is Zayd 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
+51
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+147
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+441
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.39×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (442)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#633
2025

Spellings of Zayd

Zayd is not the most common spelling — Ray is, with 30.1% against Zayd's 0.72%.

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 Zayd is used

Across 2016–2025, Zayd was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 2,083 boys, against 1 in 5,230 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in 50,000).

248 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 2,083
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 2,703
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 2,941
  4. 4Virginia1 in 3,125
  5. 5Maryland1 in 3,571
  6. 6Illinois1 in 3,846
  7. 7New York1 in 3,846
  8. 8Michigan1 in 4,348

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, Zayd is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 84% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Zayd around the world

Where Zayd 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
    #181
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2025
    #495
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2007–2025
    #402
    in 2025
  • France
    1994–2025
    #105
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #242
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1999–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, 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. 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 Zayd

People whose public names include Zayd, 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.

Zayd by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#633
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 147
Best rank ever
#633
2025
Peak year
2025
442 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,890
Count in 2025
442

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#17,477
2020
Peak year
2020
5 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Zayd

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

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Names with a curve like Zayd

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

BenicioAriesZahirZamirDakariElielYahyaGatlinAnakinMusaAzariahKyren

Sibling names for Zayd

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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