Meaning & Origin
A surname from Italian.
Zola is a girl's and boy's baby name of Italian origin, from a place name in Lombardy, though also used as a surname in French Jewish tradition — most famously by the French novelist Émile Zola, who wrote 'J'Accuse' and the Rougon-Macquart series.
In recent years, Zola gained parenting-community fame when Beyoncé and Jay-Z named their daughter Blue Ivy, and Zola entered the spotlight through the viral Twitter thread turned film Zola (2021). It's short, striking, literary, and effortlessly cross-cultural.