In 2025, 43 US girls were named Zenaida, making it the 3,576th most common girls’ name of the year, down 300 places from #3,276 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 49 girls named Zenaida in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,732, reached in 1974. The most girls given the name in a single year was 76, in 2023. For comparison, it was #3,986 in 2015 and #3,050 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zenaida in 107 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 7 babies. In all, 2,972 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 393 babies named Zenaida.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 510 US girls were named Zenaida; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 76. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,378 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Senaida, Zenayda and Cenaida are summarised on this page.