How Many People Are Named Zoraida?
people named Zoraida are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 178,105 people in the US has this name
Based on 2,092 babies named Zoraida in Social Security records from 1918 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
62 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Perhaps means "enchanting" or "dawn" in Arabic. This was the name of a minor 12th-century Spanish saint, a convert from Islam. The name was used by Cervantes for a character in his novel 'Don Quixote' (1606), in which Zoraida is a beautiful Moorish woman of Algiers who converts to Christianity and elopes with a Spanish officer.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Zoraida in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Zoraida alive today is about 46 years old, and 55% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 34 and 60 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Zoraida first appears in the records in 1918 and was given most often in 1961, to 62 babies. In 2025, 6 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1918 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Zoraida has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,415, in 1966. In 2025 it ranked #14,927.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #14,927 |
| Best rank | #1,415 (1966) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,530 in the 1960s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Zoraida alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Zoraida were born in New York than in any other state: about 649 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Zoraida was given 7.6 times as often in New York, 3 times in New Jersey and 1.6 times in Illinois.
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