Zaid

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Zaid is ranked 662nd among boys in 2024 (414 births). Its best rank was 581st, in 2018.

Rank in 2024: #662up 63 from 2023
Births in 2024: 4140.02% of boys
Peak year: 2018475 births
Best rank: #581in 2018
Since 1969: 7,056people given the name

Babies named Zaid, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

7,056 boys have been named Zaid in the United States since 1969, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 475 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2015, and the 2010s alone account for 39%. It has spent 18 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Zaid
1960s	5
1970s	60
1980s	159
1990s	502
2000s	1,580
2010s	2,758
2020s	1,992

In 2018, its biggest year

Zaid was the 581st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2018 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Oliver. See all of 2018.

Names that rose and fell with Zaid

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.