Zionna
Feminine · “Hebrew”
Zionna is a hill in Jerusalem with a feminine ending on it. Zion names the fortified ridge that David captured, and by extension the whole city and the people — a place name that became a theological term and then, in American religious naming, a given name. Adding -na makes it female.
How old is the name Zionna?
Zionna first appears in US birth records in 1998 — 27 years ago. The typical Zionna alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 800 people named Zionna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Zionna most popular?
Zionna peaked in 2011, reaching #3350 nationally. Today it ranks #7133, 3,783 places below that high. See the whole 2011 chart.
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Where it comes from
From צִיּוֹן (Tsiyon) to Zionna
The story of Zionna
Zion has a long American religious life quite apart from the Bible: it names hundreds of churches, gave its name to the Zion movement, appears throughout African American spirituals as a figure for freedom, and is a central term in Rastafari. It became a boys' given name in the United States in the 1990s and rose sharply in the 2000s. Zionna is the feminised form, made with the standard English -a or -na ending, and it peaked in 2011, a few years behind the masculine name's own rise.
Meaningscholars disagree
Hebrew, a place name of uncertain meaning
Tsiyon originally named a specific fortified hill in Jerusalem. Its own etymology is genuinely unresolved — proposals include a root meaning dry place, one meaning a landmark or signpost, and a pre-Hebrew Jebusite origin. The theological extension to mean Jerusalem, the people of Israel and the promised homeland is well documented; the word's original sense is not.
How the name formed
- צִיּוֹןTsiyon
- Zion
- Zionna
Related forms: צִיּוֹן · ጽዮን (Tsiyon)
Pronouncing Zionna
zye-ON-uh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Hebrew gives tsee-YOHN, with an initial ts cluster English does not use at the start of words. The English reading has been fixed for centuries.
Nicknames for Zionna
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1998
- Most girls named
- 201148 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3350reached in 2011
- Change vs 2024
- −40.0%15 in 2025, from 25
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Zionna in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- צִיּוֹן in Hebrew — related form
- ጽዮን (Tsiyon) in Amharic — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Michigan, Florida.
Zionnas among us
people named Zionna are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 107,151 born in 2025 was named Zionna
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Zionna
- #7133
- Zionna on the 2025 chart
- #903
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Zionna went to 15 girls in 2025, but Ziona, Zyonna and Ziyonna and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 6 spellings went to 57, which makes it the 903rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 6,230 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 28,198 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 107,151 for Zionna itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Merrianne test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Zionna's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Merrianne climbed just as high around 1948, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Merrianne's path sketches the road Zionna is walking now.
Zionna sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Zionna beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Zionna in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It carries a term of real weight in Jewish, Christian and Rastafari tradition.
- The Z opening is distinctive on a page of names.
- It is three syllables with no difficult sounds.
- The religious content is explicit and specific.
- Zion is far more common and is used mainly for boys.
- The word's original Hebrew meaning genuinely is not known.
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Frequently asked
- How many Zionnas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Zionna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Zionna?
- Zionna is the most-used spelling in US records — 15 of the 57 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Ziona, Zyonna, Ziyonna, Zyona and Zyionna.
- How popular is the name Zionna in 2025?
- Zionna ranks #7133 among US girl names in 2025, with 15 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Zionna?
- About 1 in every 107,151 US girls born in 2025 was named Zionna — 15 in all.
- Will my child share the name Zionna with classmates?
- Zionna will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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