Zenaida
Zenaida was given to 43 girls in 2025, #3,575 among girls’ names; 2,972 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,630 Americans named Zenaida and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 15 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zenaida by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zenaida mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zenaida is “a female given name from Spanish.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zenaida?
#3,575 among girls’ names, 2025
Zenaida rose from #3,985 in 2015 to #3,575 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 21.3 to 26.8 per million.
76 babies in 2023, the peak
Zenaida peaked in 2023, when 76 girls were given it, #2,396 among girls’ names. The 43 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,575 | 26.8 |
| 2024 | 49 | #3,276 | 30.2 |
| 2023 | 76 | #2,396 | 47.4 |
| 2022 | 57 | #2,954 | 34.8 |
| 2021 | 69 | #2,557 | 42.1 |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,140 | 31.5 |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,170 | 30.4 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,850 | 22.9 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,844 | 23.2 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,246 | 19.8 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,985 | 21.3 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,843 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,238 | 19.9 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,598 | 18.2 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,146 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,605 | 18.0 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,478 | 18.5 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,085 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,225 | 14.6 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,262 | 18.4 |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,871 | 20.6 |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,743 | 21.2 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,103 | 18.1 |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,064 | 26.7 |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,193 | 24.4 |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,520 | 20.9 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,504 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 41 | #3,112 | 23.2 |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,220 | 21.3 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,143 | 21.7 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,926 | 23.3 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,607 | 17.4 |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,046 | 21.6 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,413 | 17.9 |
| 1991 | 51 | #2,477 | 27.2 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,517 | 16.3 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,114 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,684 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,165 | 17.3 |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,680 | 21.6 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,244 | 16.3 |
| 1984 | 38 | #2,513 | 22.6 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,149 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 41 | #2,413 | 24.2 |
| 1981 | 35 | #2,656 | 21.0 |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,485 | 23.5 |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,930 | 18.7 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,939 | 18.3 |
| 1977 | 39 | #2,340 | 25.4 |
| 1976 | 46 | #1,967 | 31.4 |
| 1975 | 52 | #1,806 | 35.7 |
| 1974 | 53 | #1,732 | 36.1 |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,453 | 21.3 |
| 1972 | 43 | #1,944 | 28.3 |
| 1971 | 38 | #2,174 | 22.8 |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,353 | 18.9 |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,101 | 21.9 |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,430 | 16.5 |
| 1967 | 34 | #2,038 | 20.6 |
| 1966 | 32 | #2,091 | 18.9 |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,202 | 17.0 |
| 1964 | 31 | #2,193 | 16.4 |
| 1963 | 32 | #2,129 | 16.6 |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,161 | 15.8 |
| 1961 | 37 | #1,919 | 18.3 |
| 1960 | 23 | #2,571 | 11.4 |
| 1959 | 31 | #2,051 | 15.3 |
| 1958 | 25 | #2,318 | 12.4 |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,725 | 9.3 |
| 1956 | 16 | #3,046 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 10 | #4,066 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 21 | #2,448 | 10.8 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,808 | 8.5 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,802 | 8.6 |
| 1951 | 9 | #4,008 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 13 | #3,049 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 20 | #2,272 | 11.7 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,347 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,702 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,215 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,238 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,399 | 11.3 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,249 | 7.4 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,859 | 6.1 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,727 | 10.0 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,446 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,852 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,427 | 7.6 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,971 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,746 | 6.9 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,969 | 9.4 |
| 1930 | 7 | #4,040 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,919 | 9.9 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,763 | 10.4 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,798 | 5.0 |
| 1926 | 11 | #3,042 | 9.3 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,936 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,661 | 7.2 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,347 | 8.3 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,441 | 5.8 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,631 | 11.4 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,393 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,810 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,801 | 5.2 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,585 | 5.5 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,914 | 6.7 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,822 | 11.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zenaida a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zenaida has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 107 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zenaida: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zenaida, and how old are they?
2,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 2,972 Americans ever recorded as Zenaida. The median Zenaida alive today is 33 years old; half are between 15 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 11,715 people named Zenaida (11,694 women and girls, 21 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,366 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 34 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 306 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 550 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 535 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 584 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 619 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Zenaida born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,945 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,206 | 1.9× |
Where Zenaida is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zenaida is most over-represented in Texas: since 1913 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Zenaida with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,369 babies since 1880, Zenaida is the most given (88% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 43 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zenaida
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Zenaida and names like it
- Compare Zenaida and ZendaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZenaida peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zenaida since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Zenaida: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Zenaida.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zenaida alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.