Zenobia is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning “life of Zeus.” In 2024 it was given to 31 girls in the United States.
Zenobia at a glance
Gender
Girl name
Origin
Greek
Meaning
“life of Zeus”
Pronunciation
/zəˈnəʊ.bi.ə/
Also spelled
Zenobios
About the name Zenobia
Zenobia belongs to the Greek tradition. Its meaning — “life of Zeus” — is the sense carried by its Greek roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page. It travels in a few spellings: Zenobios.
In the United States, Zenobia first appears in Social Security records in 1881. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #683 in 1909, and in 2024 31 babies received the name — 4,573 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.