Zaidi

Zaidi is the 7,789th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,089 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 73,100.

By the numbers

People: 4,089
Rank: 7,789th
How common: 1 in 73,100
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic

From Arabic زَيْدِيّ, from Arabic زَيْد, referring to Zayd bin Ali.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Zaidi described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 87.0%
White, not Hispanic 6.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Zaidi

Yumna Zaidi (born 1989)Pakistani actor and model
Shama Zaidi (born 1938)Indian screenplay writer, costume designer, art director, theatre person, art critic, and documentary film maker

People named Zaidi with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.