Zahavah Name Meaning & Historical Trends

Zahavah

Pronunciation: zah-HAH-vuh

Meaning Golden Gender Girl
GIRLS RANK
#17,221
TREND
365

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 Zahavah in the available records.

Fun Facts About the Name Zahavah

  • 16 babies named Zahavah: U.S. records list 16 babies given the name Zahavah from 1880 through 2025.

What Does the Name Zahavah Mean?

Zahavah is a feminine Hebrew name meaning "golden." It derives from the Hebrew word zahav (זָהָב), "gold," with a feminine ending. The same base appears in the related forms Zahava and Zehava. The literal reference is to gold; "golden" is the usual English rendering.

Zahavah Name History & Origins

Zahavah is an English spelling variant of Zahava, also spelled Zehava, a feminine Hebrew name written זהבה. The final -h in Zahavah is a transliteration convention rather than a separate Hebrew element; the Hebrew form ends with the letter he, which marks the feminine form. The spellings Zahava, Zehava, and Zahavah reflect different ways of rendering the same Hebrew vowels in English. The name is a Hebrew word name rather than a biblical matriarch name, so its history is tied to the use of Hebrew vocabulary names rather than to a single narrative figure.

How Popular is the Name Zahavah?

Zahavah 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 2017. Its best rank was #15,848 in 2017.

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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How the Name Zahavah Shapes Your Personality and Life?

You have aspiration and inspiration, hope and guidance. Since you are intuitive and perceptive and you understand human nature. You have the power to achieve. Diplomacy and discretion make you a good mediator. You are inspired, introspective, and have a good understanding of the human heart. You can have the ability to commercialize your artistic talents successfully. You are often a mystery to others and to yourself. You are always reaching for something higher, without exactly knowing what that "higher" is. You are bold, independent, inquisitive and interested in research. You know what you want and why you want it.

Dependable, very down-to-earth and well grounded, you are always looking for meaningful work, a career where you can take pride in your work and do the best job you are capable of. Your prime desire is to build protected and secure environment at home and at work. You can be very persuasive in achieving goals and gaining objectives. You can be very detailed and well-organized and possess great organizational skills. At times you may appear too stubborn and overly critical to others, but your practical approach to life and productivity makes you one of the most beneficent members of community.

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