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Zayd vs Zayvian

American parents have registered 4,895 Zayds since 1880, against 566 Zayvians. Zayd is still ahead, with 442 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zayd against Zayvian, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zayd Zayvian

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Zayd has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2015, when Zayd had 185 and Zayvian had 34.

Side by side

  Zayd Zayvian
Total US births 4,895566
Most in one year 44253
Babies in 2025 44248
Estimated living today 4,900560
Median age today 66
Peak year 20252021
Best rank 632nd boys2,499th boys
Rank in 2025 632nd2,676th
First recorded 19742002
Girls / boys 5 / 4,8900 / 566

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Zayd Zayvian
England and Wales 2,8943

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Zayd and Zayvian.