Zeyd
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ZAYD
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,771 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #5,606 for boys
Zeyd is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “growth, increase”. In 2025 it ranked 1,771st for boys in the UK (15 babies) and 5,606th for boys in the US (16 babies).
What does Zeyd mean?
Arabic: spelling of Zayd
“growth, increase”
Zayd ibn Harithah, adopted son of the Prophet, is the only Companion mentioned by name in the Qur'an.
Is Zeyd a girl's or a boy's name?
Zeyd is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 boys in the UK and 16 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zeyd in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,771st among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 15 about 1 in 20,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 75% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 15 boys in the UK were named Zeyd, making it the 1,771st most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,502nd.
It has been given to more boys each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most boys named Zeyd of any year since it first appeared, in 1997.
Half of all the boys named Zeyd in the UK since 1996 were born between 2018 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 434 boys in the UK were given Zeyd or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #149, up from #1,771 for this spelling alone.
Among boys in 2025, it was 1,703rd in England and Wales.
Zeyd in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #1,771 |
| 2024 | 11 | #2,149 |
| 2023 | 9 | #2,468 |
| 2022 | 7 | #2,922 |
| 2021 | 7 | #2,886 |
| 2020 | 5 | #3,502 |
| 2019 | 10 | #2,231 |
| 2018 | 5 | #3,596 |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,161 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,214 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 3 | #4,829 |
| 2013 | 3 | #4,884 |
| 2012 | 3 | #4,999 |
| 2011 | 1 | #6,218 |
| 2010 | 3 | #4,865 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 1 | #3,857 |
How popular is Zeyd in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,606th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 16 about 1 in 110,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 16 boys in the US were named Zeyd, making it the 5,606th most popular name for boys. It first appears in the records in 2011.
2025 had the most boys named Zeyd of any year since it first appeared, in 2011.
Half of all the boys named Zeyd in the US since 1880 were born between 2021 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,013 boys in the US were given Zeyd or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #341, up from #5,606 for this spelling alone.
Zeyd in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,606 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,760 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,512 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,256 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,141 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,080 |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,775 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,280 |
Names like Zeyd
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad, Zayaan, Zayan, Musa, Mustafa, Ziyad, Amir, Zayn, Zayyan, Abdullah, Ahmed, Umar
Other spellings of Zeyd
Names related to Zeyd
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo, Safa
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, “Zeyd: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zeyd, updated 20 October 2026.