Zulaika
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zulaika/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zulaika is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 35K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 75K
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 100K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zulaika 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 157K | — | Zulaika | 60 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Zulaika | 31 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 314K | — | Zulaika | 10 |
| US United States | — | 135 | 1 in 2.5M | 135 | Zulaika | 85 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Zulaika | 6 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Zulaika | 2 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #998 | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Zulaika | 8 |
| GY Guyana | — | 10 | 1 in 75K | 10 | Zulaika | 2 |
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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Zulaika 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 Basque, "Molinete en el navío" Lar .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- José Antonio de Donostiab. 1886ESnot in their usual nameSpanish writer and musician (1886–1956)
- Maritxu Urretab. 1915ESnot in their usual nameSpanish translator
- Joseba Zulaikab. 1948ESBasque writer
- Aitor Zulaikab. 1978ESSpanish association football manager
- Zuriñe ZulaikaESSpanish meteorologist and physicist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Zulaika?
- A machine transcription gives /zulaika/ (IPA) for Malay.
- Is Zulaika a male or female name?
- Zulaika 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 Zulaika have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Zulaika in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zulaika.
- How common is the name Zulaika?
- In the United States, the national register counted 135 people named Zulaika in 2020, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
- How common is Zulaika compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Zulaika is the 998th most common given name of 1,886 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zulaika?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zulaikaThe 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, “Zulaika” — the 998th most common given name in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.