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Zahraa vs Zahria

American parents have registered 1,090 Zahraas since 1880, against 979 Zahrias. Zahraa is still ahead, with 35 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zahraa against Zahria, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zahraa Zahria

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 35 years in which either name was published, Zahraa for 22 years and Zahria for 13 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Zahraa Zahria
Total US births 1,090979
Most in one year 6258
Babies in 2025 3512
Estimated living today 1,100970
Median age today 1319
Peak year 20152002
Best rank 2,810th girls2,642nd girls
Rank in 2025 4,067th8,362nd
First recorded 19891995
Girls / boys 1,090 / 0979 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Zahrias alive today are over 19; half the Zahraas are over 13. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Zahraa Zahria
England and Wales 9628

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Zahraa and Zahria.