Ziva
Only about 26 women in Poland carry it, and no girl has been given it in the records: most Poles have never met one. The Slavic root means "radiance, brightness".
Ziva Pronunciation
What Ziva means
Where Ziva comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ziva grows from the Slavic root živ-, the same root behind living and alive. In that first sense the name pointed to vitality, to a person full of life. The reading of radiance came from elsewhere.
That elsewhere is Hebrew. Ziv means brightness or glow, and it names a month in the Book of Kings, the spring month of blossom later called Iyar (1 Kings 6:1). Among Jewish families Ziva settled as a girl's name carrying that light, blask and jasność. The Slavic sound and the Hebrew meaning met in one short word.
The name keeps no diminutive and no variant. It stays as it is.
On a Polish class register Ziva sits apart from the Zuzannas and Zofias, four letters, easy to read aloud. A teacher rarely stumbles on it. What the child carries under it is an old word for brightness.
How many people are named Ziva
1 in 867071 women in Poland is named Ziva. 26 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8438 among female names.
Ziva as a middle name
Ziva is a first name for 26 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6, an 81/19 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3466th, between Zeliha (6) and Zorza (6).
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#3464 Zbisława6
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#3465 Zeliha6
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#3466 Ziva6
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#3467 Zorza6
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#3468 Zulema6