Read our list of baby boy names beginning with Z with origins and meanings to find out whether your newborn could be a Zabdi, Zareb or Zera

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1. Zabdi

  • Origin: Hebrew
  • Meaning: my gift

2. Zacchaeus

  • Origin: Hebrew
  • Meaning: pure

3. Zachary

  • Origin: Hebrew
  • Meaning: God has remembered
  • Also: Zacharias, Zachariah, Zak, Zack

4. Zahid

  • Origin: Urdu
  • Meaning: beautiful, pretty, moon face

5. Zaid

  • Origin: African American
  • Meaning: master

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6. Zain

  • Origin: Swahili
  • Meaning: flourishing

7. Zaiden,

  • Origin: Modern American
  • Meaning: increasing, surplus
  • Also: Zayden

8. Zareb

  • Origin: African American
  • Meaning: protector

9. Zashawn

  • Origin: African American
  • Meaning: God is gracious

10. Zebedee

  • Origin: Hebrew
  • Meaning: Gift of God; in the bible, Zebedee was the father of two of Jesus's disciples
  • Also: Zeb

11. Zedekiah

  • Origin: Hebrew
  • Meaning: the goodness of Jehovah
  • Also: Zed

12. Zera

  • Origin: Hebrew
  • Meaning: seed

13. Zephaniah

  • Origin: Hebrew
  • Meaning: God has concealed
  • Also: Zeph

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.

Illustration: Emma Winchester

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