girls:
3.8k births since 1881
#2800 (51st percentile)
overall:
3.8k births since 1881
#4461 (42nd percentile)
The name Zaida is the #4,461 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,796 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 42.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 42.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,800 (51.0% percentile) for all time with 3,796 births since 1881.
Zaida first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (first recorded for girls in 1881). Birth data for Zaida is available in 102 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Zaida reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 11.6% percentile (ranked #831) with 59 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 61 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Zaida ranks #871 for girls (8.0% percentile) with 46 births per million, which is 76.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zaida".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Zaida. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.2% confident that Zaida is pronounced as ZAY-duh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ZAI-duh, at 37.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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