In 2025, 6 US girls were named Zoraida, making it the 14,932nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,665 places from #10,267 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 10 girls named Zoraida in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,415, reached in 1966. The most girls given the name in a single year was 62, in 1961. For comparison, it was #8,930 in 2015 and #3,051 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zoraida in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 6 babies. In all, 2,092 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 554 babies named Zoraida.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 94 US girls were named Zoraida; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 13. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Soraida, Sorayda and Zorayda 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.