555 Baby Girl Names That Start With Z (with Meanings and Popularity)
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Baby girl names that start with Z are undeniably cool: with a zippy, zesty sound and that awesome Z initial right up front. It's no wonder that Z is becoming an ever more popular first initial for baby names for both genders!
The most popular baby girl names that start with Z in the US today are led by modern classics Zoe and Zoey in the Top 100. Zoe overtook Zoey as the top girl name starting with Z last year.
Along with Zoe and her variants, other top girl names beginning with Z in the US Top 500 include the exotic Zara, Zuri and Zariah.
The Top 300 baby girl names in England and Wales include several other lovely international Z-starting female names, such as the Arabic names Zainab and Zahra, or the Slavic Zoya, Zuzanna and Zofia. And in France, sweet saint's name Zélie joins Zoé in the Top 100 names for girls.
Uncommon Z-starting girl names which rank highly with Nameberry's visitors include such intriguing options as Zahara, Zelda, Zinnia, Ziva and Zephyrine. Other excellent unique Z names for girls that we recommend range from the unisex Zephyr and Zion to the ancient Zenobia and Zipporah.
Here, our full selection of baby girl names that start with the letter Z, ordered by their current popularity on Nameberry.
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The names
Zoe
Greek
"life"
Zoey
Spelling variation of Zoe
"life"
Zinnia
Flower name, from German surname
"Zinn's flower"
Zara
Hebrew and Arabic
"blooming flower; God remembers"
Zelda
Diminutive of Griselda
"gray fighting maid"
Zia
Short form of Luzia or Terézia, Hungarian, Portuguese
"light; harvest"
Zora
Serbo-Croatian
"dawn"
Zuri
Swahili
"good, beautiful"
Zella
African, Bobangi, Libyan place name, diminutive of Rosella, Marcella, Gizella, or Isabella
"lacking nothing, one who knows the way"
Ziggy
German, diminutive of names beginning Sig/Zig
"victory"
Zosia
Variant of Sophia, Greek
"wisdom"
Zyla
Modern invented name, English form of Xyla
"wood"
Ziva
Hebrew
"life"
Zelie
French
"noble"
Zamira
Arabic, Hebrew, Albanian, "mind, heart, conscious; lean, slender; nightingale; sweet voice"
"mind, heart, conscious; lean, slender; nightingale; sweet voice"
Zoya
Russian and Greek variation of Zoe, Greek
"life"
Zyra
Zariah
Arabic, Hebrew, Russian
"flower, God has helped, dawn"
Zendaya
Shona
"to give thanks"
Zari
Persian, English, Arabic, Hebrew
"golden; blooming flower; shining, brilliance; God has helped"
