In 2025, 38 US boys were named Zahid, making it the 3,180th most common boys’ name of the year, down 468 places from #2,712 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 49 boys named Zahid in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,268, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 64. For comparison, it was #3,297 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zahid in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1978 with 6 babies. In all, 1,126 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 337 babies named Zahid.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 456 US boys were named Zahid; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 64. In 2025 that was about 1 in 44,949 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Zaid (7,460 babies since 1880), Zayd (4,895 babies since 1880) and Said (3,166 babies since 1880).