Zubayda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Female name meaning ‘little butter/cream’; historical Muslim woman Zubaydah (African Muslim Names)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Zubayda is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Zubayda is also written Зубайда in Cyrillic.
- TJTajikistan≈1 in 5.3Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 10K
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 15Kfew records
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 Zubayda 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈47,000 named Zubaida, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tajikistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Zubayda in other scripts: Latin and Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Zubaida in PK Pakistan, IN India, US United States and 3 more and Зубайда in UZ Uzbekistan, KG Kyrgyzstan, TJ Tajikistan.
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)Female name meaning ‘little butter/cream’; historical Muslim woman Zubaydah.
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zubayda 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Zubaida | 41 |
| AF Afghanistan | #828 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Zubaida | 3 |
| PK Pakistan | #165 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | listed | Zubaida | 42 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Zubaida | 35 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Zubaida | 25 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #741 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Зубайда | 9 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #950 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | listed | Зубайда | 2 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Зубайда | 9 |
| US United States | — | 528as Zubaida | 1 in 630K | 528 | Zubaida | 97 |
| TM Turkmenistan | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Zubayda | 3 |
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; 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Zubayda 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, little butter; delicate.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
the best
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of 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)- Zoubeida Bchirb. 1938TNnot in their usual nameTunisian writer
- Zoubida El Bastalib. 2002MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan football player
- Zoubeida OunaiesUSnot in their usual nameTunisian-American materials scientist
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zubayda mean, and where does it come from?
- Female name meaning ‘little butter/cream’; historical Muslim woman Zubaydah. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- Is Zubayda a male or female name?
- Zubayda 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Zubayda?
- Mondonomo estimates about 47 thousand people named Zubaida in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria and Bangladesh; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Zubayda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 528 people named Zubaida in 2020, about 1 in 630 thousand residents.
- How common is Zubayda compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Zubayda is the 165th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zubaydaThe 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, “Zubayda” — the 165th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.