Baby girl names beginning with Z – with origins and meanings
Looking for baby name ideas for a girl that start with the last letter of the alphabet? We’ve got some zappy suggestions, along with their origin and meaning
Complete your baby name list for girls using our round-up of names beginning with Z with their origins and meanings to help you decide if your daughter could be a Zahara, Zelda or Zita
1. Zada
- Origin: Syrian
- Meaning: lucky one
2. Zahara
- Origin: Swahili
- Meaning: flower
3. Zahra
- Origin: African American
- Meaning: flower
4. Zakiya
- Origin: Arabic
- Meaning: chaste
- Also: Zakiyah, Zakiyya
5. Zandra
- Origin: Greek
- Meaning: defender of men
- Also: Sandraw
6. Zara
- Origin: Arabic
- Meaning: to bloom
- Also: Zahra, Xara
7. Zaynab
- Origin: Arabic
- Meaning: beauty, grace
- Also: Zainab
8. Zeena
- Origin: Indian
- Meaning: hospitable woman
9. Zelda
- Origin: German
- Meaning: grey battle, strong woman
- Also: Griselda
10. Zelma
- Origin: German
- Meaning: helmet of god
- Also:Selma
11. Zenobia
- Origin: Greek origin
- Meaning: life of Zeus; the name of a famous Queen of Palmyra, a city in the Arabian desert
12. Zillah
- Origin: Hebrew
- Meaning: shadow; a popular name with gypsies
13. Zina
- Origin: Mixed African
- Meaning: a child’s secret spiritual name
14. Zita
- Origin: Italian
- Meaning: little girl
15. Zoë
- Origin: Greek
- Meaning: life
- Also: Zoey
16. Zola
- Origin: Italian
- Meaning: lump of earth
17. Zuleika
- Origin: Persian
- Meaning: shining beauty
18. Zuri
- Origin: Swahili
- Meaning: good, beautiful
About our author Catherine Ball
Catherine Ball is a freelance journalist who specialises in writing about parenting and health. She has been a journalist for 20 years, writing for a wide range of regional and national publications. She is also mum to 4 children between the ages 3 and 12, so has drawn up many, many lists of baby names over the past few years.
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