Zendaya

Where Zendaya comes from

Derived from Shona Tendai (a female name).
— Wiktionary's entry for Zendaya
  • Shona
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 2011
    First appearance
    #5,207 among girls, 26 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2022
    Peak, #678
    430 babies named Zendaya — more than any year before or since.
  3. 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 known Zendaya turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.