Zinayida
Just 43 women in Poland carry it, and no girls have been given it since at least 2000: most Poles will never meet a Zinayida. Greek at root, from a name meaning "belonging to Zeus", it reaches Poland through Ukrainian usage.
Zinayida Pronunciation
Zinayida is pronounced zhee-nah-ih-EE-dah (/ʑinaɨˈida/).
What Zinayida means
Where Zinayida comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Zinayida comes from Greek. Its root is the form Zenais, whose genitive Zenaidos means "belonging to Zeus." Ukrainian took the name into its own spelling, Зінаїда. Zinayida is how that spelling travels into Latin letters.
An early bearer gives the name a documented past. Saint Zenaida of Tarsus worked as a physician and appears on the Orthodox calendar on 11 October. Much later, the painter Zinaida Serebriakova, born near Kharkiv in 1884, gave the name a face in Ukrainian art. Her portraits still hang in major collections.
On a Polish class register, Zinayida stands out among the Zuzannas and Zofias. Short. It reads as foreign and old together. The meaning, "belonging to Zeus," sits in the name plainly, with no later gloss laid over the Greek.
How many people are named Zinayida
1 in 524275 women in Poland is named Zinayida. 43 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5910 among female names.