Kaziyah Name Meaning & Historical Trends

Kaziyah

Pronunciation: kuh-ZEE-yuh / KAH-zee-yah

Meaning Cassia, a fragrant spice Gender Girl
GIRLS RANK
#4,121
TREND
692

Rank shows the name’s position among U.S. baby names for each gender in 2025. Trend shows how many places it rose or fell since 2024. Rank 1 is the most popular. Based on U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) data. Peak and lowest years are based on the number of girls named Kaziyah in the available records.

Fun Facts About the Name Kaziyah

  • 277 babies named Kaziyah: U.S. records list 277 babies given the name Kaziyah from 1880 through 2025.

What Does the Name Kaziyah Mean?

Kaziyah is usually treated as a spelling of the biblical name Keziah, whose meaning is "cassia," the aromatic bark of a tree related to cinnamon. The Hebrew name is Qetzi'ah (קְצִיעָה), taken from qetzi'ah, the Hebrew word for that spice. Cassia was one of the fragrant ingredients in the anointing oil described in Exodus 30, so the literal sense of the name is a scented bark rather than a virtue or an abstract quality.

The spice word qetzi'ah is sometimes connected with a root meaning "to cut off" or "to peel," which would describe bark stripped from the tree, but that derivation of the noun is not certain. The name ends in -yah, the same ending the noun itself carries; because the spice word shares that ending, it cannot be shown that the divine name element Yah is present here, even though many Hebrew personal names ending in -yah do contain it.

Kaziyah Name History & Origins

Keziah is the name of the second of Job's three daughters in the Hebrew Bible (Job 42:14), listed with Jemimah and Keren-Happuch. The Greek Septuagint rendered the name as Kasia and the Latin Vulgate as Cassia, using the ordinary word for the spice rather than a transliteration of the Hebrew. The 1611 King James Bible prints the name as Kezia, while later English translations commonly use Keziah.

The name was in use in England by the 17th century, when Protestant families turned to the Old Testament for given names, and it appears afterward in North American records, often in the shorter form Kezia. The spelling Kaziyah alters the first vowel of Keziah and keeps the -yah ending prominent, in line with a recent preference for -iyah endings in English given names; the point at which this respelling first appears is not documented in the standard name references. Some similar spellings in other communities may instead represent an unrelated Arabic name, which is a separate question from the biblical Keziah.

How Popular is the Name Kaziyah?

Kaziyah has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2025. Its best rank was #4,121 in 2025.

U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.

Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.

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