In 2025, 52 US boys were named Ziyad, making it the 2,571st most common boys’ name of the year, up 643 places from #3,214 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 38 boys named Ziyad in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,299, reached in 2015. That year also had the most boys given the name: 58. For comparison, it was #2,299 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ziyad in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 6 babies. In all, 1,052 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 443 babies named Ziyad.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 426 US boys were named Ziyad; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 53. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,848 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ziyad ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #1,256 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.