Zendaya

Where Zendaya comes from

Derived from Shona Tendai (a female name).
— Wiktionary's entry for Zendaya
  • Shona
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Zendaya through the years
  1. 2010
    Around this time: Zendaya in Shake It Up
    TV, 2010 · Source
  2. 2011
    First appearance
    #5,207 among girls with 26 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 2022
    Peak, #678
    430 babies named Zendaya, the most in any year.
  4. 2025
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,186.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Shona.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Zendaya in Wikidata.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record. Events show what happened around then, not why parents chose the name.