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Zaiton name meaning

“olive”

Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
Z
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1960s: 8.8%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s8.8%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
4

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Zaiton

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: ZMeaning natureArabic origin

Zaiton is a girl's name from Arabic meaning 'olive'.

What does Zaiton mean?

Olive

In Malay: zaitun

#Nature#Peace

Sources (1)

About the name Zaiton

Zaiton is a spelling of zaitun, from Arabic zaytūn (زيتون), the olive tree and its fruit, which is mentioned in the Quran. The spellings Zaitun, Zaitoon and Zaytoon are also used. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1960s with 5,868 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginArabic
SyllablesZai-ton
First letterMalay Names starting with Z
Arabic scriptزيتون

Zaiton in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Girl: 5,868 · 8.8%
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Zaiton as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Malay table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Compound names with Zaiton

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: زيتون · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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