In 2025, 58 US girls were named Zaida, making it the 2,932nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 442 places from #2,490 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 73 girls named Zaida in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #826, reached in 1881. The most girls given the name in a single year was 114, in 2011. For comparison, it was #2,317 in 2015 and #3,233 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zaida in 104 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 6 babies. In all, 3,929 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 896 babies named Zaida.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 789 US girls were named Zaida; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 102. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,712 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zaida ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #2,382 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zada (3,108 babies since 1880) and Zayda (2,305 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sada, Saida and Sayda are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.