Ziva
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Radiante
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zivə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ziva is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 177K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 2.1Kas זיוה
- SISlovenia1 in 781
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ziva itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- 1 in 781 (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,700 named זיוה, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled זיוה in IL Israel, ET Ethiopia, BG Bulgaria and 2 more and Živa in SI Slovenia, RS Serbia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Radiante
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Ziva, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ziva 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | #583 | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | זיוה | 3 |
| IL Israel | #313 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 33 | זיוה | 52 |
| SI Slovenia | #167 | 2,691 | 1 in 781 | 2.7K | Živa | 30 |
| US United States | — | 1,877 | 1 in 177K | 1.9K | Ziva | 113 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | זיוה | 2 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | זיוה | 12 |
| RS Serbia | #705 | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 13K | listed | Živa | 10 |
| QA Qatar | #619 | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | זיוה | 1 |
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: CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); 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)
Ziva is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bbn, how many
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)
- Ziva Arbelb. 1927ILIsraeli Palmach communications officer
- Ziva Lahatb. 1931ILIsraeli librarian
- Ziva Rodannb. 1933ILIsraeli-American actress and mime artist
- Ziva Ben-Poratb. 1937ILIsraeli academic
- Ziva Amishai-Maiselsb. 1939USAmerican and Israeli art historian (born 1939)
- Ziva Shamirb. 1946ILIsraeli literary scholar
- Ziva Agami-Cohenb. 1954ILIsraeli police officer
- Ziva Kundab. 1955USCanadian psychologist
- Ziva Magnolyab. 2001IDIndonesian singer and actress
- Ziva Henryb. 2004NLDutch association football player
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 54 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.9K | #7,893 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 134 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 14 | #7,893 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 7 | #3,203 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 7 | #6,377 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Ziva mean, and where does it come from?
- Radiante Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- How do you pronounce Ziva?
- A machine transcription gives /zivə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Ziva a male or female name?
- Ziva 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 Ziva?
- In the etymology graph, Zivit is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Ziva?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 2,691 people named Ziva in 2025, about 1 in 781 residents.
- How common is Ziva compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Ziva is the 583rd most common given name of 31,392 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Ziva have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.7 thousand people named זיוה in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ziva most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ziva is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 781 people — even though Ethiopia holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Ziva?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zivaThe 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, “Ziva” — the 583rd most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.