Zinaida

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Zina in US United States, GE Georgia, NL Netherlands and 6 more, Zena in PH Philippines, BR Brazil, AR Argentina and 5 more, Зинаида in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 2 more and Зінаїда 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●

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Zinaida is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name9.1K records spelled Zinaida10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Zinaïda, Zinaīda

• Latvian given name3.1K records spelled Zinaida4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Latvia, Lithuania, United States, Russia

  Languages: Latvian, Lithuanian

  Also written Zinaīda, Zinaïda

• Estonian given name2.7K records spelled Zinaida5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Estonia, Finland, United States, Slovenia

  Languages: Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian

  Also written Zinaïda, Zinaīda

• a separate given name629 records spelled Zinaida6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom

  Also written Zinaïda, Zìnaïda, Zinai͏̈da, Zinaīda, Zìnaìda

32 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●

Zinaida 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.

• From Greek Zénais ‘descended from Zeus’.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• Russian: from the Greek name Z nais (genitive Z naidos ), derived from the name of Zeus (genitive Z nos ), king of the gods. At least two saints of this name are revered in the Orthodox Church as 1st-century martyrs.

  as a word

• In Russian, "holy."

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• In English, A transliteration of the Russian female given name Зинаи́да (Zinaída).

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

  as a word·Tēzaurs.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●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Zinaida Volkonskayab. 1789DERussian writer, poet, singer, salonist (1792–1862)
• Zénaïde Youssoupoffb. 1861RUnot in their usual nameRussian princess (1861-1939)
• Zinaida Gippiusb. 1869FRRussian poet, playwright, editor, short story writer and religious thinker (1869-1945)
• Zinaida Serebryakovab. 1884FRRussian and French painter (1884-1967)
• Zinaida Nikolaevna Rajhb. 1894UARussian actress (1894–1939)
• Zinaida Volkovab. 1901DERussian revolutionary (1901–1933)
• Zinaida Portnovab. 1926RUSoviet partisan (1926–1944)
• Zinaida Kiriyenkob. 1933RUSoviet and Russian actress (1933—2022)
• Zinaida Greceanîib. 1956MDMoldovan politician
• ZENAb. 2002BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian singer, actress and television presenter

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 133 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Zinaida?

We estimate roughly 48 thousand people bear Zinaida (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Zinaida have the most bearers?

Zinaida is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled зинаида.

Where is Zinaida most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zinaida is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 185 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.

How common is Zinaida compared with other names?

In Russia, Zinaida is the 78th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Zinaida a male or female name?

Zinaida 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 Zinaida mean?

Recorded meaning: Se Saida.