Zendaya is from the Shona word kutendai — "to give thanks" or "to praise." Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman (born 1996) — American actress and singer who at age 24 became the youngest person ever to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Rue in Euphoria (2020). Two-time CFDA Fashion Icon Award. Time 100 Most Influential People (2022).
Subject of countless fashion and entertainment industry profiles.
Zendaya does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Zendaya reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.