Girl Dog Names That Start With Z

Zippy is a cute nickname that livens up the Biblical Zipporah. Too cute? Your call.

Zeppelin is a fast-rising Z name for both sexes — a cool choice that evokes aviation and classic rock. Nick Cannon used it as the middle name for his 11th child, daughter Beautiful Zeppelin.

Alternative form of Zarin and Zari.

This variant of Zaniah debuted on the US Top 1000 in 2007.

Rhythmic, tangoish name quite popular in Spanish-speaking cultures.

Superfans of auteur Wes Anderson may now consider Zissou as a baby name option, ever since Kieran Culkin and Jazz Charton used it for their daughter (birth name Kinsey Sioux). It's a clear homage to Anderson's film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, chronicling the journey of a Jacques Cousteau-like oceanographer avenging his partner's death-by-jaguar-shark.

One of the coolest place names you haven't discovered yet. Familiar-but-new, ultra-rare, and that spunky Z initial — Zealand has a lot going for it. And hey, Zeal is a pretty rad nickname. Zealand first made an appearance on the girls' side of the charts in 2010, a decade after it first broke in for boys.

Taken from two slavic root words (Zlato meaning gold and Žara meaning morning glow), this unusual name is catching the attention of parents in both Bulgaria and Russia.