as a Last Name
- 1,357
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Zaidi
Meaning & Origins
Muslim: Arabic family name denoting someone descended from an ancestor called Zaid (‘increase’) or a follower of the Shiite imam Zaid al-Shahid. After the death of the fourth Shiite imam, Zaynul Abidin, a branch of the Shiites chose to follow Zaid as the next imam instead of his brother Muḥammad al–Baqīr. Zaidis are found mainly in Yemen.
| 18,137th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,357
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Maryland
- has the most people named Zaidi per capita
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