Entry № 11974 · Russian origin

Zinaida Zinaida — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ zin-ah-EE-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Russian
Meaning
"Belonging to Zeus"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Russian)

A name that means "belonging to zeus".

Zinaida is widely used in Russia and Ukraine.

Belonging to Zeus. The Russian Zenaida.

The name in its native script.

Зинаида
Transliteration
Zinaida
Pronunciation
/ zɪnəˈiː.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Zinaida stands.

Zinaida 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.

Zinaidas before her.

Real people
Zinaida Serebriakova
Russian-French painter.
1884 – 1967
Zinaida Gippius
Russian Symbolist poet.
1869 – 1945
In fiction
Zinaida
Heroine of Turgenev's First Love.
1860 novella

Names connected to Zinaida.

The number behind Zinaida.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Zinaida reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.