Zayde is a first name for boys, occasionally also given to girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Zayde is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Zayde. In the SmartGenius ranking, Zayde is #3,395 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Zayde.
Meeting a man or boy named Zayde is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Zayde can be found in only two: California and Texas. No other state currently has residents named Zayde. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Zayde living in one state or another. (If your name is Zayde and you live outside of California or Texas, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Zayde is in Texas, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Texas, only 0.00014% of all male residents are called Zayde – that’s just one in 716,805! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 24 men going by that name. So, if your name is Zayde, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Z is quite rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.4% of all common boys' names in the US begin with Z. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Zayde is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 2.4% of all boys' names begin with a Z, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the names that begin with Z, Zachary is the most common.
If your name is Zayde and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Zayde, you can simply say:
Zebra
Apple
Yoyo
Dinosaur
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Zayde
Zayde
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Z
A
Y
D
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
Z
A
Y
D
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Zayde sounds like this:
