Zenobia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Greek name associated with Zeus (or life of Zeus)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/d̪ʃeŋoβja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zenobia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 5.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 6.3K
- USUnited States1 in 129K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 120 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Greek name associated with Zeus (or life of Zeus)
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zenobia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 224K | — | Zenobia | 5 |
| PE Peru | #838 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Zenobia | 38 |
| PL Poland | — | 4,949 | 1 in 7.7K | 4.9K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 2,571 | 1 in 129K | 2.6K | Zenobia | 120 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Zenobia | 15 |
| BO Bolivia | #101 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Zenobia | 14 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Zenobia | 8 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Zenobia is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A female given name from Ancient Greek.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, queen of Palmyra
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Greek; "a stranger".
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In Occitan, a female given name from Ancient Greek, of historical usage, equivalent to English Zenobia
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zenobia of Armeniab. 100GEwife of Rhadamistus
- Zenobia Camprubíb. 1887USSpanish-American writer and linguist
- Zenobia Powell Perryb. 1908USAmerican composer and composition teacher
- Wanda Rachalskab. 1918PLnot in their usual namePolish Righteous Among the Nations
- Zenobia Owczarowab. 1920PLPolish Righteous Among the Nations
- Zenobia Shroffb. 1965INIndian actress
- Zenobia Kloppersb. 1974South African actress and singer
- Zenobia KrólPLPolish Righteous Among the Nations
- Zenobia NowakPLPolish Righteous Among the Nations
- Maria WolbiśPLnot in their usual namePolish pharmaceutical scientist, Medical University of Łódź
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4.9K | #262 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 4.9K | #262 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.6K | #6,272 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 62 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1925 | 60 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1919 | 58 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1922 | 56 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 55 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1950 | 54 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 54 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 18 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6 | #6,272 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zenobia mean, and where does it come from?
- from Greek name associated with Zeus (or life of Zeus) Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Zenobia?
- A machine transcription gives /d̪ʃeŋoβja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Zenobia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.2 thousand people named Zenobia in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zenobia.
- Is Zenobia a male or female name?
- Zenobia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Zenobia?
- In the etymology graph, Nobby is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Zenobia?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4,949 people named Zenobia in 2026, about 1 in 7.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Zenobia compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Zenobia is the 101st most common given name of 14,891 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zenobia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zenobiaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zenobia” — the 101st most common given name in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.