Given name & surname
Zanda
“field poppy”
Zanda is a surname from Sardinian. It is used in Italian and Latvian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Zanda goes back to Sardinian zanda, meaning “field poppy.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1956. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Zanda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 7
- 0 boys · 7 girls
- Most popular year
- 1956
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 1956. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 123 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Zanda’s family of names
In Latvian usage, Zanda has a related form in Sanda.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Zanda
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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