Girls Names Z: Meanings, Nicknames

Zahara

Zahara

According to author Washington Irving, a woman of forbidding and inaccessible virtue was called a Zahareña after the fortress of Zahara

Zandra

Zandra Rhodes

Zandra is the phonetic version of Xandra, diminutive form of Alexandra

Zara

Zara Cully Brown

Zara was the name of an Italian ship sunk by the British Navy in 1941

Zelda

Zelda Williams

Zelda is also a nickname for Griselda

Zena

Zena El Khalil

Zena, Oklahoma is named after Asenith Wood, the wife of the first postmaster

Zenaida

Zenaida Gippius

Zenaida is the name of a 1st century Christian saint

Zia

Ziya Tong

Ziya Tong moved from Hong Kong to Canada when she was 11 years old.

Zoe

Zooey Deschanel

The name Zoë became really popular in the 1990s

Zoila

Zoila Gurgel

A guy named Zoilus is mentioned in the works of Titus Flavius Josephus

Zuleyka

Zuleyka Rivera

Zuleikha is the name of Potiphar’s wife in the Quran

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