Entry № 11977 · German origin

Zinnia Zinnia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ZIN-ee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
German
Meaning
"The zinnia flower (first flower bloomed in space + Matilda's mother)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (German)

A name that means "the zinnia flower (first flower bloomed in space + matilda's mother)".

Zinnia is the genus name of the daisy-family flowering plant native to Mexico — named in honor of German botanist Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727-1759) who first scientifically described it. Mrs. Zinnia Naturals — the plant is the state wildflower of Indiana (since 1957). Saint Zinnia is not a canonical saint; the name belongs to modern botanical-naming tradition.

The zinnia flower. Zinnia Wormwood in Matilda.

The name in its native script.

Zinnia
Transliteration
Zinnia
Pronunciation
/ ˈzɪn.i.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Zinnia stands.

Zinnia 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.

Zinnias before her.

Real people

In fiction
Mrs. Zinnia Wormwood
Dahl's Matilda.
1988
Zinnia in space
First flower bloomed in space.
2016

Names connected to Zinnia.

The number behind Zinnia.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Zinnia reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.