girls:
43 births since 2008
#5673 (1st percentile)
boys:
407 births since 2002
#4179 (9th percentile)
overall:
450 births since 2002
#7289 (6th percentile)
The name Zayde is the #7,289 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 450 recorded births since 2002. This represents the 5.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,179 (8.8% percentile) for all time with 407 births since 2002. For girls, it ranks #5,673 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 43 births since 2008.
Zayde first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2002 (2002 for boys and 2008 for girls). Birth data for Zayde is available in 20 out of the 22 years between 2002 and 2023 (20 years for boys and 7 years for girls). 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.
The name Zayde has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 90.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Zayde reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 4.7% percentile (ranked #881) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 26 births per million (ranked 4.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2007, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Zayde ranks #890 for boys (2.3% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 55.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Zayde reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #942) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zayde".
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