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Zayda

#2,997 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Zayda has been given to 2,305 babies in the U.S. since 1956. In 2025 it ranked #2,997 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 109 recorded.

Babies named Zayda, 2025

1 in 59,200

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zayda: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zayda means

Zayda is a given name.

The naming story behind Zayda

Wikidata records Zayda as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q133894436, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,305 girls were recorded with the name Zayda between 1956 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 109 in 2020; its best national rank was #1,817 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,817 in 2020 to #2,997 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,907 in 2015 to #2,997 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.

How common is Zayda?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 59,200
56 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 28,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,997
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zayda 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 41,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zayda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zaydas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zayda was born before 2013 — so the typical Zayda is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,305
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.7% of all recorded uses (915).

Is Zayda 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
−413
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,180
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,090
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.52×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
51.4%
Peak was 2020 (109)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,817
2020

Spellings of Zayda

Zayda is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 22.3% against Zayda's 0.15%.

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 Zayda is used

Across 2016–2025, Zayda was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 24,341 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 8,333
  2. 2California1 in 14,286
  3. 3Indiana1 in 16,667
  4. 4Missouri1 in 16,667
  5. 5Texas1 in 16,667
  6. 6Alabama1 in 33,333
  7. 7Florida1 in 33,333
  8. 8Georgia1 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.

Zayda around the world

Where Zayda 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
    2019–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    2020–2025
    #6,508
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2005–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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.

Zayda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,997
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,180
Best rank ever
#1,817
2020
Peak year
2020
109 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,305
Count in 2025
56

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

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Names with a curve like Zayda

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Sibling names for Zayda

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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