Zoraida
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- soh-RYE-dah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Zoraida is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Zoraida mean?
Arabic: Spanish name of probable Arabic origin
Zoraida is the Moorish heroine of the Captive's Tale in Cervantes' Don Quixote (1605).
Is Zoraida a girl's or a boy's name?
Zoraida is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zoraida in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Zoraida, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 1961, with 62 girls. It first appears in the records in 1918.
2025 had fewer girls named Zoraida than any year since 2013.
Half of all the girls named Zoraida in the US since 1880 were born between 1964 and 1989, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zoraida in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,443 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,146 |
| 2010 | 22 | #5,975 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,375 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,105 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,125 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,480 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,447 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,259 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,274 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,311 |
| 2000 | 23 | #4,976 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,710 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,794 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,839 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,734 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,014 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,011 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,771 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,497 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,437 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,808 |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,098 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,685 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,028 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,052 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,327 |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,514 |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,658 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,581 |
| 1981 | 42 | #2,342 |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,391 |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,671 |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,050 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,001 |
| 1976 | 33 | #2,439 |
| 1975 | 40 | #2,136 |
| 1974 | 51 | #1,760 |
| 1973 | 50 | #1,755 |
| 1972 | 43 | #1,920 |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,296 |
| 1970 | 49 | #1,804 |
| 1969 | 55 | #1,609 |
| 1968 | 43 | #1,812 |
| 1967 | 61 | #1,416 |
| 1966 | 61 | #1,403 |
| 1965 | 52 | #1,547 |
| 1964 | 54 | #1,548 |
| 1963 | 55 | #1,508 |
| 1962 | 57 | #1,476 |
| 1961 | 62 | #1,419 |
| 1960 | 54 | #1,500 |
| 1959 | 36 | #1,851 |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,938 |
| 1957 | 30 | #1,988 |
| 1956 | 36 | #1,759 |
| 1955 | 28 | #2,023 |
| 1954 | 24 | #2,185 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,300 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,670 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,809 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,908 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,611 |
| 1948 | 0 | – |
| 1947 | 0 | – |
| 1946 | 0 | – |
| 1945 | 0 | – |
| 1944 | 0 | – |
| 1943 | 0 | – |
| 1942 | 0 | – |
| 1941 | 0 | – |
| 1940 | 0 | – |
| 1939 | 0 | – |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,845 |
| 1937 | 0 | – |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 1935 | 0 | – |
| 1934 | 0 | – |
| 1933 | 0 | – |
| 1932 | 0 | – |
| 1931 | 0 | – |
| 1930 | 0 | – |
| 1929 | 0 | – |
| 1928 | 0 | – |
| 1927 | 0 | – |
| 1926 | 0 | – |
| 1925 | 0 | – |
| 1924 | 0 | – |
| 1923 | 0 | – |
| 1922 | 0 | – |
| 1921 | 0 | – |
| 1920 | 0 | – |
| 1919 | 0 | – |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,289 |
Names like Zoraida
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zahira, Samira, Zahara, Amira, Khadija, Aziza, Safiya, Halima, Summer, Zaira, Farah, Safa
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from 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, “Zoraida: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zoraida, updated 20 October 2026.