Zada
surname · Latin script
Meaning: To grow
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈzɑdə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zada is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Afghanistan it is the 20th most common surname.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 4.3K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 6.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
To grow.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Zada, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zada 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #127 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 3 | Zada | 74 |
| AF Afghanistan | #20 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Zada | 32 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #150 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Zada | 22 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #251 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Zada | 37 |
| IN India | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 573K | 5 | Zada | 24 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Zada | 12 |
| US United States | — | 237 | 1 in 1.4M | 1.6K | Zada | 63 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the in-instate-surnames-bystate register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Zada is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, third-person singular future of zadać
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Alternative spelling of zayde.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ramy Zadab. 1958USAmerican actor
- Laiq Zada Laiqb. 1959PKPakistani Pashto Poet
- Bakht Zada Danishb. 1980PKPakistani Pashto Poet
- Itay Zadab. 2002ILIsraeli footballer
- Jason ZadaUSAmerican film director
- Killing of Muhammad ZadaPKPakistani anti-drug activist (died 2021)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 276 | #75,363 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 237 | #80,131 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 170 | #98,770 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #143,546 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 3 | #294 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zada mean, and where does it come from?
- To grow. Recorded by The African book of names.
- How do you pronounce Zada?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈzɑdə/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- In which country does Zada have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 122 thousand people named Zada in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zada.
- How common is the name Zada?
- In the United States, the national register counted 237 people named Zada in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Zada compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Zada is the 127th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zada?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zadaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Zada” — the 127th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.