Zaida
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zaida is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. In Puerto Rico it is the 71st most common given name. In Spanish, recorded as demoiselle crane, Anthropoides virgo.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 2.2K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela1 in 2.4K
- PEPeru≈1 in 4.8K
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.
- Venezuela (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 240 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
11,697 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, 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)
demoiselle crane, Anthropoides virgo
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Zaida is read(measured from records)
Zaida is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish62%
demoiselle crane, Anthropoides virgo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Árabe; del verbo zaada, ‘crecer’: ‘la que crece’, ‘la que aumenta’.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English18%
Alternative spelling of zayde.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zaida 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #343 | 11,697 | 1 in 2.4K | 12K | Zaida | 45 |
| PE Peru | #781 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Zaida | 50 |
| US United States | — | 6,404 | 1 in 52K | 6.4K | Zaida | 240 |
| ES Spain | #607 | 3,852 | 1 in 13K | 3.9K | Zaida | 106 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Zaida | 37 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 2,912 | 1 in 5.8K | 2.9K | Zaida | 32 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #71 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 5 | Zaida | 31 |
| CR Costa Rica | #158 | 2,299 | 1 in 2.2K | 2.3K | Zaida | 30 |
11,697 people counted by asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names; SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt). 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)
Zaida is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
abundance
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
In Arabic, increasing, exceeding, excessive, growing, surplus; feminine of Zaid
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Latvian, pilsēta Vācijā ("Sayda"), Saksijas federālajā zemē, 1950 iedzīvotāju (2013. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zaida Ben-Yusufb. 1869USAmerican photographer (1869–1933)
- Zaida Eriksson-Lihrb. 1895FIFinnish physician (1895-1974)
- Zaida del Ríob. 1954CUCuban artist (born 1954)
- Zaida Muxíb. 1964ARArgentine architect and city planner
- Zaida Bergrothb. 1977FIFinnish film director
- Zaida Gonzalezb. 1977CLChilean photographer
- Zaida Catalánb. 1980SESwedish lawyer and politician
- Zaida Saiaceb. 2000ARArgentinian musician
- Zaida Agüerab. 2000ESresearcher
- Zaida of SevillePrincess of Seville and possible Queen of León (1063<1071-1101<1107)
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(measured from records)
Attested in 68 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 51 | #44,119 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 51 | #43,744 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Zaida mean, and where does it come from?
- demoiselle crane, Anthropoides virgo Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Zaida a male or female name?
- Zaida 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.
- In which country does Zaida have the most bearers?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Zaida, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zaida.
- How common is the name Zaida?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 11,697 people named Zaida, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Zaida compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Zaida is the 343rd most common given name of 218,181 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/zaidaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Zaida” — the 343rd most common given name in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.