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Zoraida

#14,928 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly ring, chain link

Zoraida has been given to 2,092 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #14,928 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1961, with 62 recorded.

Babies named Zoraida, 2025

1 in 553,000

Zoraida over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zoraida: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly ring, chain link

Spanish

What Zoraida means

Zoraida may mean “ring, chain link”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Zoraida is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /θo.ˈɾai̯.ða/ and /so.ˈɾai̯.ða/ for Zoraida.

Origin, language, and formation

Zoraida is used in English, Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Zoraida comes through Spanish Zoraida.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Zoraida is pronounced /θoˈɾaida/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,092 girls were recorded with the name Zoraida between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 62 in 1961; its best national rank was #1,415 in 1966.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,077 in 2020 to #14,928 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,925 in 2015 to #14,928 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 Zoraida?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,928
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zoraida 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zoraida. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zoraidas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zoraida was born before 1974 — so the typical Zoraida is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
26.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,063
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 26.5% of all recorded uses (554).

Is Zoraida 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
−4,666
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,851
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,003
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.46×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.7%
Peak was 1961 (62)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,415
1966

Spellings of Zoraida

Zoraida is not the most common spelling — Zaida is, with 33.2% against Zoraida's 17.7%.

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 Zoraida is used

Across 1910–2025, Zoraida was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 58,645 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 16,667
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Connecticut1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in —

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. Zoraida has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Zoraida

People whose public names include Zoraida, 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.

Zoraida by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,928
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,851
Best rank ever
#1,415
1966
Peak year
1961
62 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,092
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Zoraida

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

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Names with a curve like Zoraida

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

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Sibling names for Zoraida

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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