# Zina (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/zina/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,073 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10 / 5,063 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 159, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 29 | 4,912 |
| 2012 | 25 | 5,555 |
| 2013 | 25 | 5,484 |
| 2014 | 31 | 4,654 |
| 2015 | 25 | 5,457 |
| 2016 | 28 | 4,988 |
| 2017 | 38 | 3,995 |
| 2018 | 49 | 3,292 |
| 2019 | 56 | 2,961 |
| 2020 | 27 | 4,874 |
| 2021 | 22 | 5,744 |
| 2022 | 38 | 3,962 |
| 2023 | 33 | 4,360 |
| 2024 | 22 | 5,796 |
| 2025 | 15 | 7,486 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 5 | 4,535 |
| 1964 | 5 | 4,594 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | 4,012 |
| 2011 | 4 | 4,764 |
| 2012 | 4 | 4,838 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2015 | 5 | 4,103 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2017 | 7 | 3,229 |
| 2018 | 9 | 2,674 |
| 2019 | 8 | 2,869 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,843 |
| 2021 | 7 | 3,192 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2,888 |
| 2023 | 7 | 3,218 |
| 2024 | 10 | 2,574 |
| 2025 | 7 | 3,333 |

## People named Zina

- Zina Garrison, American tennis player
- Zina Bethune, American actress, dancer, and choreographer (1945-2012)
- Zina Kocher, Canadian biathlete
- Zina Saro-Wiwa, British video artist and filmmaker (born 1976)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.