zen-OH-bee-ah
Zenobia
About Zenobia
The name Zenobia peaked for girls at #683 in 1909. The name is most popular in Georgia, New York, and New York.
Pronounced zen-OH-bee-ah.
As of September 2026, Zenobia ranked #6541 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #683 in 1909.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #3,078 | 55 | 30.8 |
| 2015 | #3,701 | 42 | 23.5 |
| 2016 | #3,376 | 48 | 27.1 |
| 2017 | #3,918 | 39 | 22.6 |
| 2018 | #3,673 | 42 | 24.7 |
| 2019 | #4,005 | 37 | 22 |
| 2020 | #3,398 | 46 | 28.5 |
| 2021 | #4,410 | 32 | 19.5 |
| 2022 | #4,374 | 33 | 20.1 |
| 2023 | #3,757 | 41 | 25.6 |
| 2024 | #4,541 | 31 | 19.1 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Famous Zenobias
- Zenobia (3rd century)
queen of Palmyra
- Zenobia al
Asaad, daughter of late Syrian archaeologist Khaled al,Asaad, who was killed by ISIS
- Zenobia Camprubi
Spanish,American writer
- Zenobia Powell Perry
American composer
- Alice Zenobia Richmond (b. 2005)
daughter of actress/comedian Tina Fey
- Zenobia Jeffries
associate editor at YES! Magazine who covers racial justice
Zenobia in pop culture
- Zenobia
fictional city in Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities"
- Zenobia Forster
character in "The Blithedale Romance" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Zenobia "Zeena" Frome
wife in "Ethan Frome"
- Zenobia
character in G. Bernard Shaw's play "Getting Married"
- Queen Zenobia
a ship the game "Resident Evil: Revelations"
- Psyche Zenobia
narrator of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "A Predicament"
- Zuri Zenobia Ross
from the Disney Channel show "Jessie"
- Zenobia
character in the Conan the Barbarian series
- "Zenobia
" elephant in a 1939 comedy starring Oliver Hardy
- Zenobia
from "The Vampire Chronicles" by Anne Rice
- The second element (
bia) is identical to the name of a personification of Violence, Force; in Greek mythology Bia was the daughter of Pallas and Styx. Together with Hephaestus and her brother Cratos, she chained Prometheus to the rock.
- Alternatively Zenobia may be a Greco
Latin form of some Semitic name (e.g., perhaps one akin to the Arabic Zaynab)
Variations & nicknames
- ZeniaFrench
- ZenoviaRussian
- ZenaidaFrench
- ZinoviaRussian
- ZenobieFrench
- CenobiaSpanish
- SenobiaSpanish
- ZennaFrench