Zion - Meaning of Zion

What does Zion mean?

[ 2 syll. zion, zi-on ] The baby girl name Zion is also used, and more commonly so, as a boy name. It is pronounced ZAY-aaN (English) †. Zion's language of origin is Hebrew. The meaning of Zion is 'high place; mountain in Israel'. It represents the transferred use of the geographic name as a given name. See Zion for more information.

Forms of Zion include the names Sion, Zione, and Zyon.

See also the related categories, mountain, hebrew, and geographic.

Zion is a rare baby girl name. At the modest peak of its usage in 2007, 0.025% of baby girls were named Zion. It was #576 in rank then. The baby name has fallen from favor since then, and is used only on an infrequent scale today. Out of all girl names in its family, Zion was nevertheless the most regularly used in 2018. In the last century Zion has primarily been a boy name. In 2017, 7 times more boys than girls were given the name Zion.

Baby names that sound like Zion include Zamee, Zamey, Zami, Zamie, Zammi, Zammy, Zamy, Zana, Zanna, Zannie, Zanoah, Zaseane, Zashaene, Zashaine, Zashane, Zashaune, Zashawne, Zashayne, Zashone, and Zena.