In 2025, 18 US girls were named Zenobia, making it the 6,541st most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,070 places from #4,471 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 32 girls named Zenobia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #683, reached in 1909. The most girls given the name in a single year was 62, in 1923. For comparison, it was #3,702 in 2015 and #1,258 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zenobia in 141 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 6 babies. In all, 4,592 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 497 babies named Zenobia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 368 US girls were named Zenobia; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 48. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,293 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Senobia are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.