Zenya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ZEN-yuh
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Zenya is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “hospitality”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Zenya mean?
Greek: probably a variant of Xenia (Zenia), from Greek xenia
“hospitality”
Is Zenya a girl's or a boy's name?
Zenya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zenya in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2014, with 4 girls.
Zenya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 1 | #7,383 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 3 | #4,156 |
How popular is Zenya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,913among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Zenya, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Zenya in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zenya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,050 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,263 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,607 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,606 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,013 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,132 |
Names like Zenya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Zainab Zoya Ayra Hafsa Raya Ayla Ayah Hiba Hawa Aiza Irha
Names related to Zenya
Zenaya Zen Zeina Zenayah Zena Zeniyah Zeena Zeyna Zenia Zenna
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Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Zenya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zenya, updated 20 October 2026.