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Ziyad

#2,571 in 2025Boys' name

Growth, increase, excess

Ziyad has been given to 1,052 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #2,571 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 58 recorded.

Babies named Ziyad, 2025

1 in 63,800

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ziyad: meaning, origin, and history

Growth, increase, excess

Arabic

What Ziyad means

Ziyad means “growth, increase, excess”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ziyad is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,052 boys were recorded with the name Ziyad between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 58 in 2015; its best national rank was #2,298 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,465 in 2020 to #2,571 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,298 in 2015 to #2,571 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 Ziyad?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 63,800
52 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 32,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,571
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
44,191 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ziyad 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 44,191 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ziyad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ziyads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ziyad was born before 2014 — so the typical Ziyad is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,052
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.1% of all recorded uses (443).

Is Ziyad 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
+641
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−106
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−273
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.90×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
89.7%
Peak was 2015 (58)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,298
2015

Spellings of Ziyad

Ziyad is not the most common spelling — Zayd is, with 23.0% against Ziyad's 4.9%.

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 Ziyad is used

Across 1910–2025, Ziyad was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 465,411 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8New Jersey1 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. Ziyad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ziyad around the world

Where Ziyad 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
    #782
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2023–2024
    #655
    in 2024
  • France
    1979–2025
    #460
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #977
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2003–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ziyad by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,571
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 106
Best rank ever
#2,298
2015
Peak year
2015
58 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,052
Count in 2025
52

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Sibling names for Ziyad

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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