Meaning, origin and history of the name Ziya

Gender Masculine

Scripts ضياء(Arabic)

Pronounced Pron. /dˤi.ˈjaːʔ/(Arabic) [key·simplify]

Note In Turkish this name is written with a dotted İ. It appears as ZİYA in uppercase and ziya in lowercase.

Meaning & History

Means "splendour, light, glow" in Arabic. This was the name of a 14th-century Islamic Indian historian.

VariantsDiya, Zia(Arabic)

Other Languages & CulturesZia(Bengali) Dias(Kazakh) Zia(Urdu)

youthful upper class wholesome refined strange