Given name & surname · also Turkish
Ziba
“alliance”·“collective”
Ziba is a feminine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Classical Persian. It is used in Turkish.
Original Hebrewציבא
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a biblical name, Ziba means “alliance” or “collective.”
From biblical name research
Where it comes from
Ziba comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Classical Persian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish زیبا (Zibâ), from Classical Persian زیبا (zēbā).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. 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 Ziba appears in 2 Samuel 9:2, 2 Samuel 16:1.
- 2 Samuel 9:2
- 2 Samuel 16:1
From biblical name research
Ziba through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 5 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 1916. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 522 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.
Ziba’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
See also 6
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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