Zina

Where Zina comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Zina.

  • Vowel-ended
Zina through the years
  1. 1884
    First appearance
    #851 among girls with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1945
    Zina Bethune born
    American actress, dancer, and choreographer
  3. 1963
    Zina Garrison born
    American tennis player
  4. 1964
    Peak, #338
    793 babies named Zina, the most in any year.
  5. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #497.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Zina Garrison · American tennis player, born 1963
  • Zina Bethune · American actress, dancer, and choreographer, 1945–2012
  • Zina Kocher · Canadian biathlete, born 1982
  • Zina Saro-Wiwa · British video artist and filmmaker, born 1976
  • Zina Harman · Israeli politician, 1914–2013

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.