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Zina

#7,484 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Zinaida

Zina has been given to 5,073 babies in the U.S. since 1884. In 2025 it ranked #7,484 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1964, with 793 recorded.

Babies named Zina, 2025

1 in 221,000

Zina over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zina: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Zinaida

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zina means

Zina is a short form of Zinaida.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Zina → Zinaida. The family’s meaning is “belonging to Ζεύς (Zeús)”, recorded in English.

Origin, language, and formation

Zina is used in English, Czech and Slovak.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zinaida.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Zina is pronounced [ˈzɪna].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,063 girls were recorded with the name Zina between 1884 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 793 in 1964; its best national rank was #338 in 1964.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,872 in 2020 to #7,484 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,455 in 2015 to #7,484 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Zina between 1916 and 1964. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1916; its best national rank was #4,533 in 1916.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Zina?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,484
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zina was born before 1964 — so the typical Zina is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
48.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,352
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 48.3% of all recorded uses (2,447).

Is Zina rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,691
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,612
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,029
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.9%
Peak was 1964 (793)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#338
1964

Spellings of Zina

Zina is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 19.2% against Zina's 0.07%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Zina is used

Across 1910–2025, Zina was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 59,308 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 20,000
  2. 2Maryland1 in 20,000
  3. 3District of Columbia1 in 25,000
  4. 4New York1 in 33,333
  5. 5Virginia1 in 33,333
  6. 6California1 in 50,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 50,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Zina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zina around the world

Where Zina ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2010–2010
    #910
    in 2010
  • France
    1912–2025
    #660
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1946–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Zina

People whose public names include Zina, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Zina in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Zina. Linked forms have their own page here.

Zena

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Zina by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,484
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,612
Best rank ever
#338
1964
Peak year
1964
793 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,063
Count in 2025
15

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,533
1916
Peak year
1916
5 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
1964
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Zina

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Zina

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Zina, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DeneenLesiaAlesiaLeisaGigiLorriLesaLoriannGlynisTamelaKrisTresa

Sibling names for Zina

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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