Zaida

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Zaida is a given name, most frequently recorded in Venezuela. In Puerto Rico it is the 37th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: demoiselle crane, Anthropoides virgo.

rarermore common
  • VEVenezuela1 in 2.2K◐
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 2.2K
  • ECEcuador1 in 5.8K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈18K ●

across 10 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
213 ●

155K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.2K ◐

Costa Rica

Spellings & scripts●

ZaidaLatin · Spanish●186K records
ЗаідаCyrillic · Ukrainian●64 records
ᲖაიდაGeorgian · Georgian●42 records

Locally spelled Заіда in UA Ukraine.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

demoiselle crane, Anthropoides virgo

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Zaida is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela#29986,41526K rec.—12KZaida44
PE Peru#86226,49220K rec.——Zaida47
AR Argentina—18,71413K rec.—24Zaida53
MX Mexico—13,66410K rec.—46Zaida105
CL Chile#7926,605472 rec.—4Zaida42
US United States—6,38543K rec.1 in 52K6.4KZaida213
CO Colombia#8944,0051.5K rec.—5Zaida50
ES Spain#9333,8529.7K rec.1 in 13K3.9KZaida99
EC Ecuador#9742,912△126 rec.1 in 5.8K2.9KZaida32
CR Costa Rica#1742,2995.8K rec.1 in 2.2K2.3KZaida31
BR Brazil—2,2342.3K rec.1 in 95K2.8KZaida73
GB United Kingdom—1,5181.8K rec.——Zaida46

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish186K56%
  • English64K19%
  • Portuguese42K13%
  • 3.9K1%
  • Catalan3.9K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish185,99856%
English64,00719%
Portuguese41,67713%
3,8981%
Catalan3,8541%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Zaida is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Catalan given name6.2K records spelled Zaida6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Catalan, French

    Also written Zaïda, Zaîda, Zãïdã, Zaīda

  • a separate given name4.3K records spelled Zaida4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Bolivia, Spain

    Also written Zaída, Zaïda, Zaĭda

  • Hindi given name2.0K records spelled Zaida6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Malaysia

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

    Also written জাইদা

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Zaida is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Alternative spelling of zayde.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Spanish, Árabe; del verbo zaada, ‘crecer’: ‘la que crece’, ‘la que aumenta’.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • abundance

    as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names

  • In Arabic, increasing, exceeding, excessive, growing, surplus; feminine of Zaid

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In Latvian, pilsēta Vācijā ("Sayda"), Saksijas federālajā zemē, 1950 iedzīvotāju (2013. g.)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

Over time●

050100150190019502000114 · 2011

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Zaida in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1881–2025
Yearrecords
18816
18858
18868
18896
18948
18976
19035
19085
19105
19125
19147
19158
191613
191711
19185
19198
19208
19219
19246
19256
19277
19295
19305
19329
19385
19455
194711
194910
195012
195115
195213
195313
195428
195521
195629
195726
195825
195933
196019
196124
196238
196321
196427
196522
196637
196721
196822
196923
197030
197119
197234
197330
197429
197538
197625
197729
197820
197926
198024
198126
198225
198322
198422
198525
198632
198723
198830
198934
199031
199140
199242
199324
199447
199552
199633
199739
199869
199973
200066
200180
200274
200384
200484
2005107
200691
2007111
200899
2009100
2010103
2011114
201291
2013102
201491
201581
201678
201789
201871
201969
2020102
202189
202278
202382
202473
202558

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 104 years between 1881–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Zaida Ben-Yusuf, b. 1869Zaida Eriksson-Lihr, b. 1895Zaida del Río, b. 1954Zaida Muxí, b. 1964Zaida Bergroth, b. 1977Zaida Gonzalez, b. 1977Zaida Catalán, b. 1980Zaida Saiace, b. 2000Zaida Agüera, b. 2000

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 65 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Zaida
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—12K#159
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.4K#3,314
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—3.9K#1,092
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—3.8K#557
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20242.9K#490
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—2.8K#4,802
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—2.3K#319
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20222.2K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.2K#4,745
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—389#2,460
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—204#5,176
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—118—

Reference works 2

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 700 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Zaida?
We estimate roughly 18 thousand people bear Zaida (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Zaida have the most bearers?
Zaida is most frequently recorded in Venezuela, where it is most often spelled zaida.
How common is Zaida compared with other names?
In Venezuela, Zaida is the 299th most common given name of 213,120 given names recorded there.
Is Zaida a male or female name?
Zaida is a female 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 does the name Zaida mean?
Recorded meaning: demoiselle crane, Anthropoides virgo
Query this name via API
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Zaida” — the 299th most common given name in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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