Names starting with Z
243 Names found
Armenian form of Isabel. A 13th-century ruling queen of Cilician Armenia bore this name.
Bulgarian and Macedonian feminine form of Zechariah.
From Arabic زهراء (zahrāʾ), the feminine form of أزهر (ʾazhar) meaning "shining, brilliant, bright". This is an epithet of the Prophet Muhammad's daug...
Means "blooming flower, splendour" in Arabic, from the root زهر (zahara) meaning "to shine, to bloom".
See also the name Zahra 1, which has a...Feminine form of Zayd. This was the name of a Muslim princess who took refuge at the court of (and perhaps married) Alfonso VI of León and Castile in...
Alternate transcription of Arabic زينب (see Zaynab), as well as the usual form in several languages.
Italian and Spanish form of Zaïre. It was used by Vincenzo Bellini for the heroine of his opera Zaira (1829), which was based on Voltaire's 1732 play ...
Used by Voltaire for the heroine of his tragic play Zaïre (1732), about an enslaved Christian woman who is due to marry the Sultan. She is named Zara...
Alternate transcription of Arabic زكيّة (see Zakiyya), as well as the usual Urdu and Bengali transcription.
Alternate transcription of Arabic زكيّة (see Zakiyya), as well as the usual Malay and Indonesian form.
Macedonian, Croatian and Serbian form of Jacqueline.
Polish form of Jacqueline.
Diminutive of Rozalija.
From Chinese 赞 (zàn) meaning "help, support", as well as other characters with a similar pronunciation.
Latvian form of Susanna. The Latvian playwright Rainis used it for a character in his play Pūt, vējiņi! (1913).
Czech, Slovak and Lithuanian form of Jeannette.
Means "come with goodness" in Zulu and Xhosa, from the roots za "to come, to approach" and hle "beautiful, good".
Used by William Congreve for a character in his tragedy The Mourning Bride (1697), where it belongs to a captive North African queen. Congreve may...
Diminutive of Zaharina.
From Persian زرین (zarīn) meaning "golden". According to the 5th-century BC Greek historian Ctesias, this was the name of a Scythian queen.
Meaning uncertain. It is possibly derived from Arabic زين (zayn) meaning "beauty" and أب (ʾab) meaning "father"; it could be from the name of a...
Means "clear, light, clarity" in Yucatec Maya [1]. Zazil Há was a 16th-century Maya woman who married the Spanish shipwreck survivor Gonzalo Guerrero.