Zinaida

zee-nah-ee-dah
Russian, from Greek, related to Zeus
"the life of Zeus"

Zinaida Origin and Meaning

The name Zinaida is a girl's name of Russian origin.

This unusual name belonged to a character played by Kirsten Dunst in an early film.

Famous People Named Zinaida

  • Zinaida Nikolayevna Yusupova
    Russian noblewoman at the end of the Romanov dynasty
  • Zinaida Gippius
    Russian poet
  • Zinaida Reich
    Russian actress
  • Zinaida Greceanii
    former prime minister of Moldova
  • Zinaida Portnova
    Soviet Nazi resistor and Hero
  • Zinaida Lvovna Volkova
    daughter of Soviet leader Leon Trotsky
  • Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova
    Russian painter
  • Zinaida Mykhaylivna Turchyna
    Ukrainian handball player

Zinaida in Pop Culture

  • Zinida
    lion,tamer, in love with Bazano and mistress to Briquet, in the Russian play 'Tot, kto poluchaet poshchochiny' (1914) by Leonid Andreyev (published in English, as 'He Who Gets Slapped', in 1922)
  • Pronounced \zee
    nah,EE,dah\