Ziyad
given name · Latin script
Meaning: increase, addition, surplus (A Dictionary of Muslim Names)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 32 countries
/zijˈad/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Ziyad is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Saudi Arabia than in any other country. Ziyad is also written Зияд in Cyrillic.
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 5Kfew records
- SYSyria≈1 in 5.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ziyad itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Saudi Arabia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Saudi Arabia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Ziyad in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Ziyad
- Turkish:/zijˈad/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)increase, addition, surplus. Ziyad bin Naim: a sahaabi
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ziyad counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA Saudi Arabia | #495 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Ziyad | 113 |
| MA Morocco | #678 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | listed | Ziyad | 55 |
| SY Syria | #374 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Ziyad | 24 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 27K | listed | Ziyad | 63 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Ziyad | 63 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 53 | Ziyad | 28 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,203 | 1 in 42K | 1.2K | — | 14 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 289as Zijad | 1 in 7.3K | 289 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the ma-etatcivil-authorized-given-names register; the wgnd-eg-names register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; SURS — resident population given names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Ziyad is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, increase, addition, surplus
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, ‘abundance, increase’; Arabic masculine name.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
‘Growth’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Al-Nabighab. 535not in their usual namepre-Islamic Arab poet
- Ziyad ibn Abihib. 623SAarab Administrator, Governor and Statesman
- Ziyad ibn Salih al-Khuza'i8th-century Abbasid military commander
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)55 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 32 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Ziyad come from?
- increase, addition, surplus. Ziyad bin Naim: a sahaabi Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- What are other forms of the name Ziyad?
- In the etymology graph, Ziad is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ziyad?
- In Turkish /zijˈad/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Ziyad a male or female name?
- Ziyad is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: France (INSEE, 2024), Spain (INE) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Ziyad mean?
- Recorded meaning: increase, addition, surplus.
- Which countries have the most people named Ziyad?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Ziyad in Saudi Arabia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ziyad. After it come Morocco, Syria, Egypt and Indonesia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ziyad?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,203 people named Ziyad, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.
- How common is Ziyad compared with other names?
- In Saudi Arabia, Ziyad is the 495th most common given name of 64,319 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ziyadThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Ziyad” — the 495th most common given name in Saudi Arabia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.