Zaidi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Of or pertaining to a particular branch of Shi'a Islam
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zaidi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 2.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.6K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 5.1K
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
- 210 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈87,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Of or pertaining to a particular branch of Shi'a Islam.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zaidi 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 | #188 | ≈87,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 1 | Zaidi | 118 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Zaidi | 46 |
| DZ Algeria | #127 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | listed | Zaidi | 41 |
| MA Morocco | #316 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Zaidi | 48 |
| US United States | — | 2,851 | 1 in 117K | 4.1K | Zaidi | 166 |
| TN Tunisia | #317 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Zaidi | 25 |
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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Zaidi 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 Arabic, abundance
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Swahili, more, most
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)
- Bashir Hussain Zaidib. 1898INIndian politician (1898-1992)
- Shama Zaidib. 1938INIndian screenplay writer, costume designer, art director, theatre person, art critic, and documentary film maker
- Hussain Zaidib. 1968INIndian writer (b. 1968)
- Farhan Zaidib. 1976CACanadian-Pakistani sports executive
- Annie Zaidib. 1978INIndian writer
- Said Zaidib. 1986MAMoroccan footballer
- Yumna Zaidib. 1989PKPakistani actor and model
- Adil Zaidiactor
- Ali Haider ZaidiPKpolitician in Pakistan
- Hassain Zaidifilm producer
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 36 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.1K | #7,789 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.9K | #11,122 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,470 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 1 | #1,061 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Zaidi mean, and where does it come from?
- Of or pertaining to a particular branch of Shi'a Islam. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Zaidi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 87 thousand people named Zaidi in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zaidi.
- How common is the name Zaidi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,851 people named Zaidi in 2010, about 1 in 117 thousand residents.
- How common is Zaidi compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Zaidi is the 188th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zaidiThe 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, “Zaidi” — the 188th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.