In 2025, 466 US boys were named Zaiden, making it the 609th most common boys’ name of the year, down 35 places from #574 in 2024. That is 32 fewer than the 498 boys named Zaiden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #336, reached in 2013. That year also had the most boys given the name: 965. For comparison, it was #373 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zaiden in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2000 with 5 babies. In all, 11,594 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 7,300 babies named Zaiden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,197 US boys were named Zaiden; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 792. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,665 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zaiden ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #302 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zayden (32,439 babies since 1880), Zaden (2,293 babies since 1880), Zaidyn (1,703 babies since 1880) and Zaedyn (813 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zaidynn are summarised on this page.