Zinaida
Greek at root, from a name meaning "belonging to Zeus", and it reached Poland by way of Russian. Only about 2,500 women carry it and no girls were given it last year, so most Poles will never meet one.
Zinaida Pronunciation
Zinaida is pronounced zhee-nah-EE-dah (/ʑinaˈida/).
What Zinaida means
Where Zinaida comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zinaida begins in Greek. The name goes back to Zēnaïs, a form built on the genitive of Zeus, which is why the short meaning reads as "belonging to Zeus." Russian speakers reshaped it into Zinaida, and there it took root as a familiar Russian name.
An early bearer stands in the record: Saint Zenaida of Tarsus, remembered in the old church as a physician. Closer to our time, the poet and critic Zinaida Gippius wrote at the center of Russian Symbolism, and she made the name a literary signature.
For a Polish family the name arrives with its Russian coloring intact. Say it in a school class register and it stands apart from the Zuzannas and Zofias nearby. Its meaning holds steady. "Należąca do Zeusa" keeps a Greek god inside a Russian name.
How many people are named Zinaida
1 in 8872 women in Poland is named Zinaida. 2,543 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #632 among female names.
Zinaida as a middle name
Zinaida is a first name for 2,543 women in Poland and a middle name for another 16, a 99/1 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1877th, between Zainab (16) and Zita (16).
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1875
16Yağmur
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1876
16Zainab
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187716Zinaida
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1878
16Zita
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1879
15Adama