Ziyad
given name · Latin script
Meaning: increase, addition, surplus
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈziæd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ziyad is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Saudi Arabia than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 3K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 6.3K
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. 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)
- Sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
increase, addition, surplus. Ziyad bin Naim: a sahaabi
Sources 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 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Ziyad | 113 |
| SY Syria | #374 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Ziyad | 24 |
| MA Morocco | #678 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | listed | Ziyad | 55 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 58K | listed | Ziyad | 27 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 31K | listed | Ziyad | 63 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 6K | 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; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register. 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
- Ziad Baroudb. 1970LBnot in their usual nameLebanese politician
- Ziyad Al-Kordb. 1974PSPalestinian footballer
- Ziyad al-Sofianib. 1992SAJailed Saudi Pediatrician and wikimedian
- Ziyad Al-Sahafib. 1994SAassociation football player
- Ziyad Bahab. 2009MAMoroccan footballer
- Ziyad ibn Salih al-Khuza'i8th-century Abbasid military commander
- Abu Muhammad al-SufyaniSYnot in their usual nameUmayyad prince and a pretender to the Umayyad Caliphate (died c.754)
- Abu'l-Jarud al-Hamdaninot in their usual nameShiʿite scholar and Zaydite Imam
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)
Attested in 55 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.2K | #2,531 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 852 | #1,421 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 53 | — |
| MA Morocco | Liste des prénoms d'usage au Maroc — official authorized given-names list | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
| EG Egypt | WGND 2.0 — Egypt given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
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.
- How do you pronounce Ziyad?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈziæd/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- What does the name Ziyad mean?
- Recorded meaning: increase, addition, surplus.
- Is Ziyad a male or female name?
- Ziyad 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.
- What are other forms of the name Ziyad?
- In the etymology graph, Ziad is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ziyad have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Ziyad in Saudi Arabia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ziyad.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Ziyad?
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Query this name via API
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 2026-10-10.