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Ziyaettin m Turkish
Turkish form of Ziya ad-Din.

Ziya ur-Rahman m Arabic
Means "splendour of the merciful" from Arabic ضياء (ḍiyāʾ) meaning "splendour, light, glow" combined with رحْمن (raḥman) meaning "merciful".

Zlatan m Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Slovene
Derived from South Slavic zlato meaning "gold", a derivative of Old Slavic zolto.

Zlatko m Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian
Diminutive of Zlatan.

Zohar m & f Hebrew
Means "light, brilliance" in Hebrew.

Zoilo m Spanish
Spanish form of Zoilus.

Zoilos m Ancient Greek
Greek form of Zoilus.

Zoilus m Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Latinized form of Greek Ζωΐλος (Zoilos), derived from ζωή (zoe) meaning "life". This name was borne by a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher known as a critic of Homer, and also by two Indo-Greek kings. Saint Zoilus was martyred at Córdoba, Spain during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Diocletian in the early 4th century.

Zola 2 f & m Xhosa
From the Xhosa root -zola meaning "calm".

Zoltán m Hungarian, Slovak
Possibly related to the Turkish title sultan meaning "king, sultan". This was the name of a 10th-century ruler of Hungary, also known as Zsolt.

Zopyros m Ancient Greek
Means "glowing" in Greek. This was the name of a Persian nobleman who aided his king Darius in the capture of Babylon. He did this by mutilating himself and then going to the Babylonians claiming that it had been Darius who did it to him. After gaining their trust he betrayed them.

Zoran m Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian
Masculine form of Zora.

Zorion m Basque
Means "happiness" in Basque.

Zoroaster m History
English form of Zarathustra, via the Greek form Ζωροάστρης (Zoroastres).

Zoroastres m Avestan (Hellenized)
Greek form of Zarathustra.

Zorro m Literature, Popular Culture
Means "fox" in Spanish. This is the name of a masked vigilante created by writer Johnston McCulley in 1919 for a series of books, later adapted into movies and television.

Zosimos m Ancient Greek
Greek form of Zosimus.

Zosimus m Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Latinized form of Ζώσιμος (Zosimos), a Greek name derived from ζώσιμος (zosimos) meaning "viable" or "likely to survive". This was the name of several early saints and a pope.

Zoticus m Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Latinized form of the Greek name Ζωτικός (Zotikos), derived from ζωτικός (zotikos) meaning "full of life". This was the name of several early saints.

Zotikos m Ancient Greek
Greek form of Zoticus.

Zrinko m Croatian
Masculine form of Zrinka.

Zsiga m Hungarian (Rare)
Diminutive of Zsigmond.

Zsigmond m Hungarian
Hungarian form of Sigmund.

Zsolt m Hungarian
Old variant of Zoltán.

Zsombor m Hungarian
Possibly of Turkic origin meaning "bison, wisent".

Zuan m Medieval Italian
Medieval Venetian form of John.

Zubair m Arabic, Urdu
Derived from Arabic زبر (zubar) meaning "pieces of iron". Zubair ibn al-Awwam was a cousin of the Prophet Muhammad and an early Muslim military commander.

Zuberi m Swahili
Swahili form of Zubair.

Zubin m Indian (Parsi)
Possibly a Parsi form of Chobin.

Zuhair m Arabic
Means "small flower" in Arabic, from the root زهر (zahara) meaning "to shine, to blossom".

Zuhaitz m Basque
Means "tree" in Basque.

Zulfaqar m Arabic, Urdu
Variant of Zulfiqar.

Zülfikar m Turkish
Turkish form of Zulfiqar.

Zulfikar m Arabic, Urdu, Indonesian
Alternate transcription of Arabic/Urdu ذو الفقار (see Zulfiqar), as well as the Indonesian form.

Zulfiqar m Arabic, Urdu
From Arabic ذو الفقار (Dhū al-Faqār) interpreted as meaning "cleaver of the spine", derived from ذو (dhū) meaning "possessor, holder" and فقار (faqār) meaning "spine, vertebra". This was the name of the Prophet Muhammad's sword, also used by his son-in-law Ali.

Zurab m Georgian
Georgian form of Sohrab.

Zuriel m Biblical
Means "my rock is God" in Hebrew, derived from צוּר (tsur) meaning "rock" and אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God". In the Old Testament this name is borne by a chief of the Merarite Levites at the time of the Exodus.

Zusman m Yiddish (Rare)
Means "sweet man" in Yiddish.

Zuzen m Basque
Means "just, fair" in Basque.

Zvi m Hebrew
Alternate transcription of Hebrew צְבִי (see Tzvi).

Zviad m Georgian
Derived from Georgian ზვიადი (zviadi) meaning "proud, arrogant".

Zviadi m Georgian
Form of Zviad with the nominative suffix, used when the name is written stand-alone.

Zvonimir m Croatian
Derived from the Slavic elements zvonŭ "sound, chime" and mirŭ "peace, world". Dmitar Zvonimir was an 11th-century Croatian king.

Zvonko m Croatian
Diminutive of Zvonimir.

Zyaire m African American (Modern)
Variant of Zaire.

Žydrūnas m Lithuanian
From Lithuanian žydra meaning "light blue" (using the patronymic suffix ūnas).

Zygfryd m Polish
Polish form of Siegfried.

Zygmunt m Polish
Polish form of Sigmund.