Zayd

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Zayd: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Zayd: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #201, and it stood at #402 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
40times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#201highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1235
1997	#1113
1998	#1263
1999	#973
2000	#918
2001	#814
2002	#577
2003	#813
2004	#637
2005	#666
2006	#748
2007	#538
2008	#649
2009	#570
2010	#566
2011	#528
2012	#460
2013	#338
2014	#374
2015	#363
2016	#362
2017	#334
2018	#301
2019	#267
2020	#266
2021	#272
2022	#240
2023	#226
2024	#201

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #201 among boys in England and Wales, #472 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #478 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1235 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #201 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #402 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Zayd appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,609 births with the name.

Zayd across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Zayd's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1235 (1996)	#201 (2024)	#201 (2024)	29 of 29	2,609 (1996–2024)	250 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#629 (2007)	#402 (2025)	#402 (2025)	10 of 19	43 (2007–2025)	9 (2025)

Zayd by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Zayd in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	47	4 of 10	12
2000s	372	10 of 10	37
2010s	1,181	10 of 10	118
2020sbusiest	1,009	5 of 10	202

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 202 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2012 and 2013, when recorded births rose by 36, from 86 to 122.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Zayd appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #201 in England and Wales in 2024.

Zayd's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#201	250	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#226	215	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#240	199	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#272	169	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#266	176	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#267	183	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#301	161	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#334	144	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#362	128	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#363	122	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#374	109	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#338	122	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#460	86	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#528	66	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#566	60	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#570	58	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#649	47	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#538	58	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#748	34	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#666	39	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#637	38	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#813	25	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#577	35	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#814	21	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#918	17	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#973	15	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1263	10	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1113	12	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1235	10	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#402	9	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#472	7	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#660	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#637	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#646	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#749	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#715	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#629	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#478	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #201, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 250 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2007, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Zaydan · #906, 21y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Khadijah · #200, 29y
Ruan · #200, 28y
Umar · #200, 30y
Leann · #203, 32y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Effie · #201, 30y
Katie-Leigh · #201, 21y
Kornelius · #201, 30y
Hamzah · #202, 29y

Zayd was ranked #201 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Zayd and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Zayd without appearing here.

Zayd moved ahead of

Ashleigh Compare
In 2000 they stood at #918 and #881 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #814 and #1595.
Graham Compare
In 2003 they stood at #813 and #695 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #637 and #1347.
Shannon Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1235 and #1168 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #1113 and #1761.
Johannes Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1263 and #1263 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #973 and #1505.

Moved ahead of Zayd

Ollie Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1113 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #1263 and #924.
Arlo Compare
In 2007 they stood at #538 and #651 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #649 and #567.
Cooper Compare
In 2005 they stood at #666 and #678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #748 and #677.
Hunter Compare
In 2010 they stood at #566 and #625 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #528 and #473.

Moved the opposite way to Zayd

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayd went from #1235 to #201 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayd went from #1235 to #201 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayd went from #1235 to #201 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayd went from #1235 to #201 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Zayd

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayd went from #1235 to #201 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayd went from #1235 to #201 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayd went from #1235 to #201 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zayd went from #1235 to #201 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #201 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Zayd

Zayd at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Zayd across 2 official records

Zayd by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Zayd across 2 official records

Zayd by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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