Zayde
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ZAYD
- US rank, 2025
- #3,512 for boys
Zayde is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 3,512th for boys in the US (32 babies).
Where does Zayde come from?
Uncertain; Yiddish zeyde means grandfather, and it may also echo Arabic Zayd
Is Zayde a girl's or a boy's name?
Zayde is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 32 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zayde in the UK?
No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2023, with 4 boys.
Zayde in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | #4,346 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,335 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 1 | #6,364 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 3 | #4,995 |
How popular is Zayde in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,512th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 32 about 1 in 53,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 9% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 32 boys in the US were named Zayde, making it the 3,512th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,885th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 49 boys. It first appears in the records in 2002.
Half of all the boys named Zayde in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,013 boys in the US were given Zayde or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #341, up from #3,512 for this spelling alone.
Zayde in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #3,512 |
| 2024 | 49 | #2,674 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,109 |
| 2022 | 48 | #2,715 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,120 |
| 2020 | 41 | #2,885 |
| 2019 | 33 | #3,423 |
| 2018 | 24 | #4,222 |
| 2017 | 19 | #4,931 |
| 2016 | 24 | #4,198 |
| 2015 | 28 | #3,774 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,481 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,801 |
| 2012 | 14 | #5,995 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,657 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,692 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,100 |
| 2008 | 7 | #9,864 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,361 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,048 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 6 | #9,941 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,660 |
Names like Zayde
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad, Zayaan, Zayyan, Ziyad, Zayan, Saif, Zahir, Musa, Zaim, Zayed, Zohaib, Zubayr
Other spellings of Zayde
Names related to Zayde
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Zayde: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zayde, updated 20 October 2026.