Forename Zia

In the world, Zia (ضياء , Zia , 谢 , among others...) is a widespread predominantly masculine, but scarcely female given name. The given name Zia is habitual in Iraq, where it is a common masculine name, Pakistan, and Syria, where it is quite a common largely masculine, but infrequently female name (explore the name in all countries). Measured by absolute frequency, it most frequently occurs in Pakistan, Iraq, and Egypt. More prevalently, Zia is the last name as well as the forename.

Jesus fish Zia is also a name from the Bible. Explore more in our Biblical names portal!

Translations, transliterations and names similar to the name Zia

VARIANT	COUNTRY
ضياء	Syria, Palestinian Territory, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq
Zia	Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh
谢, 齐亚, 謝	China
Зия	Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus
Зиа	Russia, Belarus

First names said to be same

Chay, Cheah, Chia, Ché, Dare, Dea, Dear, Der, Dia, Diya, Hsieh, Jair, Nzia, Sa, Shea, Shei, Shieh, Sia, Sie, Tcha, Tchea, Tchia, Thia, Tia, Tjea, Tse, Tsia, Tạ, Xie, Xiè, Zija, Ziya, Zià, Ziá, Ziâ, Zią, Zzia, Zìa, Zía, Zíà, Zîa, Zîà, Zîâ, Zîã, Zïa, Zïà, Zïâ, Zïã, Zįã, Zįā,

First name Zia in the context

Zia is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Zia Rashid , character in The Kane Chronicles and Zia Scolastica .

Notable namesakes

	ali zia cricketer, PK (b. 1957)
	ahmad zia researcher
	ali akmal zia researcher (ORCID 0000-0003-3399-2029)
	malik zia researcher (ORCID 0000-0002-6263-547X)
	lee lynn zia Ph.D. Brown University 1985
	sayyad yaseen zia researcher