Zaîdî

surname · Latin script

Zaîdî is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Arabic زَيْدِيّ (zaydiyy).

  • PKPakistan≈1 in 3.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • TNTunisia≈1 in 3.7Kfew records
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.9K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈72,000 people, est.

Record sources
210 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Pakistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Zaidi in PK Pakistan, US United States, MY Malaysia and 3 more.

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)

From Arabic زَيْدِيّ (zaydiyy).

Cited for this meaning 2

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Zaîdî is found

(measured from records)

Zaîdî 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.

Where Zaîdî is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#188≈72,000 est.≈1 in 3.5K1Zaidi118
DZ Algeria#127≈12,000 est.≈1 in 3.9KlistedZaidi41
MY Malaysia—≈9,200 est.≈1 in 3.9K—Zaidi46
MA Morocco#316≈5,800 est.≈1 in 6.5K—Zaidi48
TN Tunisia#317≈3,300 est.≈1 in 3.7K—Zaidi25
US United States—2,8511 in 117K4.1KZaidi166

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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Zaîdî under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Zaîdî mean, and where does it come from?
From Arabic زَيْدِيّ (zaydiyy). Recorded by African Muslim Names and Wiktionary.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Zaîdî?
Mondonomo estimates about 72 thousand people named Zaîdî in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zaidi. After it come Algeria, Malaysia, Morocco and Tunisia; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Zaîdî?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,851 people named Zaîdî in 2010, about 1 in 117 thousand residents.
How common is Zaîdî compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Zaîdî is the 188th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Zaîdî” — the 188th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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