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Boy's name · #633 in the US (2025) · Trending
Zayd is climbing: on the charts since 1974, it reached #633 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 440 boys given the name last year. Roughly 4,900 have carried it all-time.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 22 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#67 in Belgium (2025) · #105 in France (2025) · #107 in Netherlands (2025) · #181 in England & Wales (2025) · #389 in Austria (2025) · #431 in Ireland (2025) · #527 in Sweden (2025) · #559 in Scotland (2025) · #576 in Switzerland (2025) · #703 in Ecuador (2025) · #245 in Canada (2024).
Among 22 notable people named Zayd:
Artists & writers appear 1.82× more often than among typical names — e.g. Zayd Mutee' Dammaj, Yemeni author and politician.
Together with its spelling variant Zaid (#677), Zayd would rank around #375 with about 840 births last year — the newborns split about 52/48 between Zayd and Zaid.
Similar names: Zaid · Yahya · Saif · Zahir · Zayan · Sami
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