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Zenaida

#3,575 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Spanish origin

Zenaida has been given to 2,972 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #3,575 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 76 recorded.

Babies named Zenaida, 2025

1 in 77,100

Zenaida over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zenaida: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Spanish origin

Spanish

What Zenaida means

Zenaida is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Zenaida is used in English, Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Zenaida is pronounced /θeˈnaida/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,972 girls were recorded with the name Zenaida between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 76 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,732 in 1974.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,140 in 2020 to #3,575 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,985 in 2015 to #3,575 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Zenaida?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 77,100
43 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 37,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,575
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
53,441 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zenaida sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zenaida. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zenaidas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zenaida was born before 1989 — so the typical Zenaida is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
13.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,685
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 13.2% of all recorded uses (393).

Is Zenaida rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−299
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−435
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+410
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.13×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.6%
Peak was 2023 (76)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,732
1974

Spellings of Zenaida

Zenaida is not the most common spelling — Zaida is, with 25.7% against Zenaida's 19.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Zenaida is used

Across 1910–2025, Zenaida was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 45,216 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3New York1 in 50,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 100,000
  7. 7New Mexico1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Zenaida has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zenaida around the world

Where Zenaida ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2019–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    2022–2024
    #7,351
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Zenaida

People whose public names include Zenaida, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Zenaida in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Zenaida. Linked forms have their own page here.

ZinaidaSinaidaZenaideZinaīdaZénaïdeZinayida

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Zenaida by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,575
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 435
Best rank ever
#1,732
1974
Peak year
2023
76 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,972
Count in 2025
43

Names similar to Zenaida

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Zenaida

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Zenaida, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Zenaida

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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