Given name & surname
Zenas
“one who is generous”
Zenas is used as a given name and a surname. One Greek interpretation is “one who is generous.”
Original GreekΖηνας
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Greek interpretation is “one who is generous.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
How it developed
Possibly from the Greek verb didomi (διδωμι), “to give or hand over.”
From biblical name research
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1885. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Zenas appears in Titus 3:13.
From biblical name research
Zenas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 447
- 442 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1991
- 23 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 21 in 1988. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 365 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Zenas’s family of names
Zenas has a related form in Zenaas. Zenas has a related form in Zenase. Zenas has a related form in Zenias.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
See also 4
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Zenas
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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