Zenaida

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Zenaida is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Griego, ‘hija de Zeus’; otra versión: descendiente de Zenas.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 857(inferred from the name graph)
  • VEVenezuela1 in 2.6K
  • PEPeru≈1 in 2.6K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈130,000 people, est.

Sources
265 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 857 (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Spanish

Griego, ‘hija de Zeus’; otra versión: descendiente de Zenas.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

How Zenaida is read(measured from records)

Zenaida 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.

  • Spanish65%

    Griego, ‘hija de Zeus’; otra versión: descendiente de Zenas.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • English27%

    Greek, 'of Zeus'

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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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Zenaida 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.

Where Zenaida is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#275≈130,000 est.≈1 in 85785KZenaida88
PE Peru#444≈12,000 est.≈1 in 2.6K—Zenaida44
US United States—11,7151 in 28K12KZenaida265
VE Venezuela#28610,9041 in 2.6K11KZenaida29
AO Angola#750≈4,000 est.≈1 in 8K—Zenaida8
SV El Salvador#776≈540 est.≈1 in 12K—Zenaida15

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: Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Zenaida is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Peru

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Zënåïdä, Zenaïda

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Zenaida 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 Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    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)

190019502000Zenaida Pally, b. 1919Zuka, b. 1924Zenaida Manfugás, b. 1932Zenaida Espaldon Cabilete, b. 1943Zenaida Solís, b. 1949Zenaida Castro Romeu, b. 1952Zenaida Yanowsky, b. 1975Ruth Buendía, b. 1977Zenaida Espino, b. 1997Zenaida Moya, b. 2000

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 55 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Zenaida
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 are other forms of the name Zenaida?
In the etymology graph, Zénaïde is a form of the same name in other languages.
What does the name Zenaida mean?
Recorded meaning: Griego, ‘hija de Zeus’; otra versión: descendiente de Zenas.
Is Zenaida a male or female name?
Zenaida 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 Zenaida have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 127 thousand people named Zenaida in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zenaida.
How common is the name Zenaida?
In the United States, the national register counted 11,715 people named Zenaida in 2020, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
How common is Zenaida compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Zenaida is the 275th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.

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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, “Zenaida” — the 275th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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