Zaïdi
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Zaïdi 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)
- Record sources
- 210 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈72,000 people, est.
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)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
- African Muslim Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zaïdi 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 | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 1 | Zaidi | 118 |
| DZ Algeria | #127 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | listed | Zaidi | 41 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Zaidi | 46 |
| MA Morocco | #316 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Zaidi | 48 |
| TN Tunisia | #317 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Zaidi | 25 |
| US United States | — | 2,851 | 1 in 117K | 4.1K | Zaidi | 166 |
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Zaïdi mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic زَيْدِيّ (zaydiyy). Recorded by African Muslim Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Zaïdi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 72 thousand people named Zaïdi in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zaidi.
- How common is the name Zaïdi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,851 people named Zaïdi in 2010, about 1 in 117 thousand residents.
- How common is Zaïdi compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Zaïdi is the 188th most common surname of 51,489 surnames 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/za%C3%AFdiThe 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, “Zaïdi” — the 188th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.