Zenobia (Ζηνοβία) comes from the Greek Zen (a form of Zeus) and bios (life) — meaning "life of Zeus." The historical Zenobia (240-274 CE) was queen of the Palmyrene Empire in Syria, who briefly conquered Egypt and challenged Rome.
Zenobia is rare as a girls' name but rising — chosen by parents who want classical weight without the well-known names.
Zenobia 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Zenobia reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.