Zaid

Where Zaid comes from

Borrowed from Arabic زَيْد (zayd).
— Wiktionary's entry for Zaid
  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1936
    Zaid al-Rifai born
    former Prime Minister of Jordan
  2. 1969
    First appearance
    #4,404 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 2001
    Zaid Abdul Kareem born
    Jordanian taekwondo athlete
  4. 2018
    Peak, #581
    475 babies named Zaid — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic.
Namesakes
  • Zaid Abdul Kareem · Jordanian taekwondo athlete, born 2001
  • Zaid al-Rifai · former Prime Minister of Jordan, 1936–2024
  • Zaid Abdul-Aziz · American basketball player, born 1946
  • Zaid Ismail · Iraqi footballer, born 2002
  • Zaid Romero · Argentine association football player, born 1999

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.