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Gender Masculine
Scripts زيدي(Arabic) زيدي, زايدي(Malay Jawi)
Other Forms FormsZaidy, Zaidie, Zaidee
Meaning & History
Means "my increase", from Arabic زاد (zada) meaning "to increase" (see Zayd). It may also come from the name of 8th-century Muslim leader Zaid bin Ali, whose unsuccessful revolt against the Umayyad Caliphate led to the formation of the Zaidiyyah sect of Shia Islam.