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
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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
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- 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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