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Dog names starting with Z

Every name in our list that starts with Z, for girls, boys and either, with the meaning of each. A name that starts with a hard sound carries further across a park than a soft one.

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Girl names (43)

Zabaione
A light whipped custard of egg yolks, sugar and wine · Italian
Zabibu
Means grape in Swahili, for a small, sweet dog · Swahili · small dogs
Zadie
Form of Sadie, princess
Zafaran
Means saffron in Persian, for a golden-red dog · Persian
Zahra
Means flower or shining in Arabic · Arabic
Zara
Arabic for blooming flower, or a form of Sarah meaning princess · Arabic
Zaza
A doubled pet name, short form of Isabel or Zara
Zazie
French pet form of Isabelle, from the novel Zazie in the Metro · French
Zee
Dutch for sea · Dutch
Zelda
Short form of Griselda, grey battle · German
Zenobia
Warrior queen of Palmyra · Greek
Zereshk
Persian dried barberries, tart and red · Persian · small dogs
Zerlina
Village bride in Mozart's Don Giovanni · Italian
Zermatt
The Swiss village under the Matterhorn
Zeta
The sixth letter of the Greek alphabet · Greek
Zhaleh
Means dew in Persian · Persian
Ziba
Means beautiful in Persian · Persian
Zima
Russian for winter · Russian
Zinnia
A bright bedding flower
Zipporah
Hebrew for bird, the wife of Moses · Hebrew
Zirka
Ukrainian for little star · Ukrainian
Zissel
Means sweet in Yiddish · Yiddish
Zita
Italian, perhaps from Tuscan for little girl, a patron saint of servants · Italian
Ziva
Hebrew for radiance, also the Slavic goddess of life · Hebrew
Ziyun
Means purple cloud in Mandarin, rare and lovely · Chinese
Zlata
From the Slavic word for gold · Russian
Zoe
Greek, life · Greek
Zoey
From Zoe, Greek for life · Greek
Zoi
Greek for life · Greek
Zola
Also a Zulu name and a French novelist
Zonda
A warm dry wind that blows down the Andes into Argentina · Spanish
Zora
A Slavic name meaning dawn
Zorya
Slavic goddess of the dawn · Slavic
Zosia
Polish pet form of Zofia · Polish
Zosma
A star on the back of Leo the lion, Greek for girdle · Greek
Zoya
Loving and alive, used across India · Hindi
Zugspitze
Germany's highest mountain · German
Zula
Short form of Zuleika, and a Zulu name for a traveller · Zulu
Zumrut
Means emerald in Turkish · Turkish
Zuppa
Italian for soup · Italian
Zuri
Swahili for beautiful · Swahili
Zuzu
A playful doubled name, the little girl in It's a Wonderful Life
Zvezda
Russian for star · Russian

Boy names (33)

Zachary
Hebrew Zechariah, God remembers · Hebrew
Zack
Short form of Zachary, Hebrew for God remembers · Hebrew
Zaffiro
Italian for sapphire · Italian
Zal
A white-haired hero of the Shahnameh, raised by the Simorgh · Persian
Zander
Short form of Alexander, defender of the people · Greek
Zane
English surname of uncertain origin, popular since the novelist Zane Grey
Zanjeer
Detection dog who found explosives after the 1993 Mumbai blasts · Hindi
Zanzibar
Spice island off the Tanzanian coast
Zapata
Surname of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata · Spanish
Zappel
German for fidget · German
Zatopek
After Emil Zatopek, the tireless Czech distance runner
Zayn
Means beauty or grace in Arabic · Arabic
Zeb
Short form of Zebedee or Zebulon, Hebrew for gift or exalted · Hebrew
Zeca
Popular Portuguese nickname for Jose · Portuguese
Zeev
Means wolf in Hebrew · Hebrew · big dogs
Zefiro
Italian for the west wind · Italian
Zeke
Short form of Ezekiel, Hebrew for God strengthens · Hebrew
Zeno
Greek, from Zeus, after the philosopher Zeno of Citium · Greek
Zero
The number nothing, for a dog who looks innocent of everything
Zeus
Greek king of the gods
Zheng He
The Chinese admiral who led great treasure fleets · Chinese
Zidane
After Zinedine Zidane, who won the 1998 World Cup with France
Ziggy
A pet form of Sigmund, meaning victory and protection
Zimt
German for cinnamon · German
Zinfandel
Old vine red grape grown widely in California · Croatian
Zion
A high canyon country in Utah · Hebrew
Zircon
One of the oldest minerals found on earth
Ziv
Means bright or radiant in Hebrew · Hebrew
Zorba
English mastiff recorded as the heaviest dog on record · big dogs
Zubr
Ukrainian for bison · Ukrainian · big dogs
Zucchero
Italian for sugar · Italian
Zuhair
Means small flower in Arabic · Arabic
Zwerg
German for dwarf, a funny name for a small dog · German · small dogs

Names for either (29)

Zaatar
Levantine blend of thyme, sumac and sesame · Arabic
Zagreb
Capital city of Croatia
Zambezi
African river that plunges over Victoria Falls
Zap
A comic book sound effect
Zawadi
Swahili for gift · Swahili
Zen
The meditative school of Japanese Buddhism · Japanese
Zenith
The point directly overhead
Zenzai
A warm red bean soup with rice cakes · Japanese
Zephyr
Greek, the gentle west wind · Greek
Zeppelin
The German rigid airship · German · big dogs
Zeppole
Italian fried dough pastries · Italian
Zeytin
Means olive in Turkish, for a dark-eyed or black dog · Turkish
Zhao
Means morning or sunrise in Mandarin · Chinese
Zhenya
Russian pet form of Yevgeniy or Yevgeniya · Russian
Zinc
A blue grey metal, a zippy short name
Zither
A flat stringed instrument played on the lap · German
Ziti
A tube of Italian pasta · Italian
Zlaticko
Czech for little golden one · Czech
Zohar
Means light or brilliance in Hebrew · Hebrew
Zoisite
A mineral family that includes tanzanite · German
Zolotko
Ukrainian for little golden one · Ukrainian
Zon
Dutch for sun · Dutch
Zongzi
Sticky rice wrapped in bamboo leaves for the Dragon Boat Festival · Chinese · small dogs
Zonnetje
Dutch for little sun, a sunny pet name · Dutch
Zoomies
Sudden bursts of fast running, common in young dogs · small dogs
Zouzou
A playful French pet name · French · small dogs
Zucchini
A green summer squash, from the Italian for little squash · Italian
Zurich
Swiss city on a lake below the Alps · German
Zydeco
Accordion led dance music of Louisiana · French

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