In 2025, 29 US girls were named Zada, making it the 4,754th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,195 places from #7,949 in 2024. That is 15 more than the 14 girls named Zada in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #491, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 96, in 2006. For comparison, it was #3,210 in 2015 and #3,420 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zada in 120 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 13 babies. In all, 3,108 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 704 babies named Zada.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 333 US girls were named Zada; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 49. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,423 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Zaida (3,929 babies since 1880) and Zayda (2,305 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sadao, Zadaya and Sadae are summarised on this page.