| Yaffa | Zahava | |
|---|---|---|
| Meaning | Beautiful | gold, golden |
| Origin | hebrew | hebrew |
| Gender | Girl | Girl |
| Pronunciation | YAH-fuh | zah-HAH-vah |
| Syllables | 2 | 3 |
| First appeared | 0 | 0 |
| Peak year | 2025 (23) | 2024 (40) |
| In 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| Trend | Steady | Rising |
Source: US Social Security Administration.
| Decade | Yaffa | Zahava |
|---|---|---|
| 2020s | 78 | 206 |
| 2010s | 105 | 265 |
| 2000s | 108 | 179 |
| 1990s | 56 | 103 |
| 1980s | 63 | 65 |
| 1970s | 48 | 30 |
| 1950s | 5 | 0 |
From Hebrew יָפֶה/יָפָה (yafeh/yafah) 'beautiful, lovely'. Yaffa (also Yafit) is a modern Hebrew beauty name; the same root names the city Jaffa ('the beautiful').
Hebrew name from 'zahav' (זָהָב), the ordinary word for gold, meaning 'golden' or 'golden one'. Variants include Zehava, Zahavah. Literal metal sense.
Yaffa and Zahava are given to a similar number of US babies today.
Yaffa means Beautiful (hebrew origin), while Zahava means gold, golden (hebrew origin).
In US records, Yaffa first appears in 0 and Zahava in 0, so Yaffa has the longer recorded history.