Entry № 11881 · Hebrew origin

Zahava Zahava — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ zah-HAH-vah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Gold / golden"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "gold / golden".

Zahava Bar-Nir — modern Israeli-American figure. Princess Zahava — modern Hebrew royal heritage naming.

Gold / golden — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

זהבה
Transliteration
Zāhāva
Pronunciation
/ zəˈhɑː.və /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Zahava stands.

Zahava does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Zahavas before her.

Real people
Zahava Gal-On
Iconic Israeli Meretz Party leader.
born 1956
In fiction
Zahava
Hebrew for gold.

Names connected to Zahava.

The number behind Zahava.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Zahava reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.