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Ziad

#2,939 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Ziyad

Ziad has been given to 1,115 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #2,939 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 44 recorded.

Babies named Ziad, 2025

1 in 77,100

Ziad over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ziad: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Ziyad

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ziad means

Ziad is a alternate transcription of Ziyad.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ziad → Ziyad. The family’s meaning is “growth, increase, excess”, recorded in the naming reference for Ziyad.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ziyad.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,115 boys were recorded with the name Ziad between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 44 in 2019; its best national rank was #2,612 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,884 in 2020 to #2,939 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,227 in 2015 to #2,939 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 Ziad?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 77,100
43 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 39,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,939
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
53,441 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ziad 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 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ziad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ziads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ziad was born before 2009 — so the typical Ziad is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,115
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.9% of all recorded uses (345).

Is Ziad 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
+1,043
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−55
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+288
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.19×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
97.7%
Peak was 2019 (44)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,612
2001

Spellings of Ziad

Ziad is not the most common spelling — Liam is, with 32.8% against Ziad's 0.10%.

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 Ziad is used

Across 2016–2025, Ziad was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 100,729 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 100,000
  5. 5New York1 in 100,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 100,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in —

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.

Ziad around the world

Where Ziad 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
    #1,798
    in 2025
  • France
    1973–2025
    #620
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,390
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #494
    in 2010

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.

Ziad by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,939
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 55
Best rank ever
#2,612
2001
Peak year
2019
44 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,115
Count in 2025
43

Names similar to Ziad

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

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Sibling names for Ziad

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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