Given name
Zinaida
“a beautiful woman”
Zinaida is a variant of Zaina. One Arabic interpretation is “a beautiful woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Zinaida is a variant of Zaina. One Arabic interpretation is “a beautiful woman.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
How it developed
From Russian Зинаи́да, from Ancient Greek Ζηναΐς.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2017. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Zinaida is a variant of Zenaida. The history of Zenaida gives this family its wider story. In mythological stories, Zenaida is associated with a daughter of Zeus.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Zinaida through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 5 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 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,723 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.
Zinaida’s family of names
Zinaida has a short form in Zina. In English usage, Zinaida shares an earlier linguistic root with Zenaida. Zinaida has a related form in Zaina.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Zinaida has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Zinaida
- Zinaida GippiusRussian poet, playwright, editor, short story writer and religious thinker (1869-1945)
- Zinaida GreceanîiMoldovan politicianborn 1956
- Zinaida SerebriakovaRussian and French painter (1884-1967)
- Zinaida KupriyanovichBelarusian singer, actress and television presenterborn 2002
- Zinaida PortnovaSoviet partisan (1926–1944)
- Zinaida YermolyevaRussian microbiologist (1898–1974)
- Zinaida Tusnolobova-MarchenkoQuadruple amputee veteran of WWII and Heroine of the Soviet Union (1920-1980)
- Zinaida SharkoSoviet and Russian actress (1929-2016)
- Zinaida YusupovaRussian princess (1861-1939)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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