Entry № 997 · 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
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Grammatical form
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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

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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.