Zahida
given name · Latin script
Meaning: devout, ascetic, a hermit, self-denying
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 32 countries · latest register: SURS, 2025
Zahida is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 8K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 24Kfew records
- SYSyria≈1 in 34K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zahida itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈32,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)devout, ascetic, a hermit, self-denying
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zahida 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 | #105 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 8K | listed | Zahida | 56 |
| IN India | — | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 53K | 41 | Zahida | 47 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Zahida | 22 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 24K | listed | Zahida | 12 |
| US United States | — | 1,102 | 1 in 302K | 1.1K | Zahida | 163 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Zahida | 8 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 61 | 1 in 34K | 64 | — | — |
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: the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the dz-kaggle-names register; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)Zahida is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, , (zaahidah): devout, ascetic
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)- Zahida Ibrahimb. 1926IQIraqi indexer and librarian
- Zahida Hinab. 1946PKPakistani journalist
- Zahida Manzoorb. 1958GBBritish businesswoman (born 1958)
- Zahida Rafikb. 1975MYMalaysian actress
- Zahida Khanb. 2000USresearcher
- Zahida AliPKbadminton player
- Zahida KazmiPKPakistan's first female taxi driver
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)46 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 32 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zahida mean, and where does it come from?
- devout, ascetic, a hermit, self-denying Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- What are other forms of the name Zahida?
- In the etymology graph, Zahide is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Zahida a male or female name?
- Zahida is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), India (India Names Dataset), Norway (SSB) and Spain (INE).
- In which country does Zahida have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named Zahida in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zahida.
- How common is the name Zahida?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,102 people named Zahida in 2020, about 1 in 302 thousand residents.
- How common is Zahida compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Zahida is the 105th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zahidaThe 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, “Zahida” — the 105th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.