Entry № 5407 · Hebrew origin

Keziah Keziah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KEH-zee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Cassia (Job's daughter)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "cassia (job's daughter)".

Keziah (קְצִיעָה) is Hebrew for "cassia" — the aromatic spice. In Job 42:14, the second of Job's three daughters born after his restoration. "And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job."

Keziah Jones is the Nigerian musician.

Cassia. Job's restored daughter.

The name in its native script.

קְצִיעָה
Transliteration
Qəṣīʿāh
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɛ.zi.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Keziah stands.

Keziah 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.

Keziahs before her.

Real people
Keziah Jones
Nigerian musician.
born 1968
In fiction
Keziah Mason
Witch in Lovecraft's "Dreams in the Witch House."
1933 story

Names connected to Keziah.

The number behind Keziah.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Keziah reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.