Zubaida (or Zubaidah, Zubeida, Zubaydah, Zubeda) is an Arabic (زُبَيْدَة), feminine given name that means "soft-bodied", "like cream", and is also an idiom for prime (in beauty, in virtue, grace), originating from the fact that cream is the prime part of the dessert, or the core of something that is growing. It is mostly used in Asia.

Notable people with this name include the following:

Zubaida (name)

Given name

Zubaidah bint Ja'far (766–831), the favourite wife of Harun al-Rashid

Zübeyde Sultan (1728–1756), Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Ahmed III

Zübeyde Hanım (1856–1923), mother of Turkish statesman Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Zubeida (1911–1988), Indian film actress

Zubaida Yazdani (1916–1996), Indian historian

Zubeida Agha (1922–1997), Pakistani artist

Zubeida Begum (1926–1952), Indian film actress

Zubaida Khanum (1935–2013), Pakistani playback singer

Zubaida Tharwat (1940–2016), Egyptian actress

Zubaida Gulshan Ara (c. 1943/44–2017), Bangladeshi writer

Zubaida Tariq (1945–2018), Pakistani chef

Zubaida Jalal Khan (b. 1959), Pakistani politician

Zübeyde Kaya (b. 1991), Turkish women's football defender

Zübeyde Süpürgeci (b. 1993), Turkish Paralympian athlete

Zubaida Bai, Malaysian expert in health products

Zubeida Malik, British journalist

Zubaida al-Meeki, Syrian colonel and dissident

Surname

Sami Zubaida (born 1937), American political scientist

Zubaida (name)