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Girl's nameOrigin: internationalIn Israel: hardly given today

ZivaIn Hebrew: זיוה · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel

With vowel points: זִיוָהRomanization: zíva

Ziva (Hebrew: זיוה) is a girl's name of international origin. 3,361 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Its peak year was 1951, with 134 babies.

People in Israel
3,361
born 1949–2024
Babies in 2024
—
not in the list
Peak year
1951
134 babies
USA, 2025
134
rank #1,570

Writing and saying Ziva

In Hebrew letters the name is זיוה, read right to left. Ziva is the Latin spelling recorded in Wiktionary; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms. Wiktionary romanizes it as "zíva" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).

Meaning and origin

  • a female given name, Zivah

Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.

Ziva by year: Israel and abroad

How many girls out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).

Ziva: rate per 10,000, 1950–2025

per 10,000 babies of the same sex

Ziva in English-speaking countries

Ziva in each official list: latest year, count, rank and peak
Country / regionYearBabiesRankPeak
United States2025134#1,5702011 (193)
United Kingdom202529#1,1872014 (43)
England and Wales202529#1,1342013 (40)

Counts for girls. The Hebrew page for Ziva has every year and the other spellings.

Related Israeli names

Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.

Questions about Ziva

How do you write Ziva in Hebrew?

Ziva is written זיוה in Hebrew (with vowel points: זִיוָה). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "zíva".

How many people in Israel are named Ziva?

3,361 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name זיוה: 3,361 women and 0 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.

Is Ziva a boy's or a girl's name?

In Israel it is almost always a girl's name: 100.0% of the people named זיוה are women.

What does the name Ziva mean?

English Wiktionary describes it as: "a female given name, Zivah"

Is Ziva used outside Israel?

The name Ziva appears in the official baby name lists of English-speaking countries. In the United States 134 girls were given it in 2025 (#1,570), per the Social Security Administration. In the UK 29 in 2025 (ONS, NRS and NISRA combined).

Sources

Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.

Abroad

Counts are copied as published. We only merged accented spellings (Zoë = Zoe) and computed ranks and rates. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia and the Open Government Licence – Alberta.