Zayd

What Zayd means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Zayd yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #181 vs #632 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Zayd?

US: Rising: up from #1070 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #363 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 442 boys got the name (#632 that year). First in the US records in 1974.

How common

• About 1 in 3,864 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 954 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,274 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MN (0.98 per 1,000 boys), WA (0.55 per 1,000 boys), NY (0.54 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Zayd is #632 in the US and #181 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Zayd were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Zaid402 US · 110 E&W
• Said107 US · 11 E&W
• Zade105 US · 11 E&W
• Saad59 US · 41 E&W
• Zayde32 US
• Zeyd16 US · 15 E&W
• Saud14 US · 7 E&W
• Zaide16 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Zayd

Boys

• Zahir#738Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 7 babies
• Amir#105“commander, prince”^*
• Ibrahim#351Editor’s note Up from #436 in 2015 to #351 in 2025 in the US
• Yusuf#449Same root as Joseph, meaning “(God) shall add”^*
• Ali#306“high, exalted”^*
• Laith#893Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #254 vs #893 in 2025

For a sister

• Zahra#538Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 8 babies
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Amira#132“princess”^*
• Maryam#351Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #52 vs #351 in 2025
• Amirah#490Variant of Amira, meaning “princess”^*
• Alia#587Feminine form of Ali, meaning “high, exalted”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Arabic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Zayd’s. Rank is US 2025.