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Ziva

#1,580 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Ziv

Ziva has been given to 2,805 babies in the U.S. since 1960. In 2025 it ranked #1,580 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 193 recorded.

Babies named Ziva, 2025

1 in 24,700

Ziva over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ziva: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Ziv

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ziva means

Ziva is a feminine form of Ziv.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ziva → Ziv. The family’s meaning is “bright, radiant”, recorded in the naming reference for Ziv.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ziv.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,805 girls were recorded with the name Ziva between 1960 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 193 in 2011; its best national rank was #1,243 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,255 in 2020 to #1,580 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,565 in 2015 to #1,580 in 2025.

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.

How common is Ziva?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 24,700
134 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 12,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,580
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
17,150 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ziva 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 17,150 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ziva. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zivas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ziva was born before 2017 — so the typical Ziva is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
57.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,805
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 57.0% of all recorded uses (1,600).

Is Ziva 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
−145
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−325
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−15
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.95×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
69.4%
Peak was 2011 (193)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,243
2011

Spellings of Ziva

Ziva is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 23.6% against Ziva'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 Ziva is used

Across 2016–2025, Ziva was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 5,000 girls, against 1 in 10,556 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in 50,000).

220 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 5,000
  2. 2Washington1 in 5,263
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 7,143
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 7,692
  5. 5Georgia1 in 8,333
  6. 6Virginia1 in 8,333
  7. 7Florida1 in 9,091
  8. 8Maryland1 in 9,091

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.

Ziva around the world

Where Ziva 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
    2007–2025
    #1,133
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2011–2011
    #444
    in 2011
  • Ireland
    2017–2023
    #625
    in 2023
  • France
    2012–2025
    #5,718
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #991
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1994–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA 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 Ziva

People whose public names include Ziva, 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.

Ziva by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,580
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 325
Best rank ever
#1,243
2011
Peak year
2011
193 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,805
Count in 2025
134

Names similar to Ziva

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

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Names with a curve like Ziva

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

LondynnBrynleyAarnaRylynnRayleighAdalieHartleyJalayahColbieEmeriKinzleyNeriah

Sibling names for Ziva

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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