Zayed
given name · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zayed is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Arab Emirates, where it is the 20th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and English, written in the Latin script.
- AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 429◐
- UAUkraine1 in 247K
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈395 ●
- Sources
- 161 ●
- 1 in 393K ◐
across 5 countries
21K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AE United Arab Emirates | #20 | 17,331 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Zayed | 95 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 1,280 | 3 rec. | — | — | Zayed | 2 |
| FR France | — | 788 | 858 rec. | — | — | Zayed | 82 |
| EG Egypt | — | 756 | 3.5K rec. | — | — | Zayed | 113 |
| IN India | — | 717 | 584 rec. | — | 11 | Zayed | 35 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 614 | 649 rec. | — | — | Zayed | 65 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 551 | 333 rec. | — | — | Zayed | 36 |
| QA Qatar | #432 | 305 | 218 rec. | — | — | Zayed | 26 |
| US United States | — | 293 | 8.9K rec. | 1 in 1.1M | 1.1K | Zayed | 161 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | 286 | 382 rec. | — | — | Zayed | 40 |
| KW Kuwait | #575 | 253 | 231 rec. | — | — | Zayed | 32 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 185 | 453 rec. | — | — | Zayed | 12 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic21K73%
- English3K11%
- French8603%
- Spanish4722%
- Bangla3531%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 20,649 | 73% |
| English | 3,043 | 11% |
| French | 860 | 3% |
| Spanish | 472 | 2% |
| Bangla | 353 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 7 |
| 2003 | 6 |
| 2004 | 5 |
| 2005 | 7 |
| 2006 | 9 |
| 2007 | 17 |
| 2008 | 9 |
| 2009 | 16 |
| 2010 | 11 |
| 2011 | 12 |
| 2012 | 16 |
| 2013 | 17 |
| 2014 | 19 |
| 2015 | 30 |
| 2016 | 18 |
| 2017 | 29 |
| 2018 | 33 |
| 2019 | 25 |
| 2020 | 17 |
| 2021 | 18 |
| 2022 | 21 |
| 2023 | 15 |
| 2024 | 19 |
| 2025 | 26 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 24 years between 2000–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyanb. 1918AESheikh of Abu Dhabi from 1966 to 2003
- Zayed KadirUSAmerican politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 44 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 145 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Zayed?
- We estimate roughly 395 people bear Zayed (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Zayed have the most bearers?
- Zayed is most frequently recorded in the United Arab Emirates, where it is most often spelled zayed.
- How common is Zayed compared with other names?
- In the United Arab Emirates, Zayed is the 20th most common given name of 29,311 given names recorded there.
- Is Zayed a male or female name?
- Zayed is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zayed” — the 20th most common given name in United Arab Emirates. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.