Zahra
Zahra reached its high-water mark in 2025 at number 538, and has been recorded 9,395 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 538th. About 9,300 Zahras are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Zahra
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 9,395
- Estimated living today
- 9,300
- Median age today
- 9
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 538th
- Rank in 2025
- 538th
- First recorded
- 1973
How old the living Zahras are
born that year still alive today
Of the 9,395 babies given the name since 1973, about 9,300 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 7,100 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Arabic
Borrowed from Arabic زَهْراء, an epithet of Fatima, the daughter of Muhammad. As a surname, it is predominantly found in Egypt.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Zahras
- Zahra Nemati (born 1985)Iranian Paralympic and Olympic archer
- Zahra Rahnavard (born 1945)Iranian academic and politician
- Zahra Eshraghi (born 1964)Iranian activist
- Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh (1883–1936)Persian princess and memoirist of the Qajar Dynasty.
- Zahra Lari (born 1995)Emirati figure skater
- Zahra Kazemi (1949–2003)Iranian photographer
- Farkhunda Zahra Naderi (born 1981)Afghan politician
- Zahra Ouaziz (born 1969)athletics competitor
People named Zahra with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Zahra is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Zahra is most concentrated in Maryland (2.5×), Virginia (2.3×), New Jersey (2.0×), New York (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Zahra peaked:
Zahra elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Zahra | 8,856 | 116th |
| France girls | Zahra | 4,730 | 369th |
| Norway girls | Zahra | 903 | 226th |
| Belgium girls | Zahra | 709 | 278th |
| Italy girls | Zahra | 610 | — |
| Scotland girls | Zahra | 369 | 171st |
| Ireland girls | Zahra | 217 | 226th |
| Switzerland girls | Zahra | 207 | 469th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Zahra | 23 | 302nd |
| Poland girls | Zahra | 11 birth registrations | 461st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Zahra: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Zahra | 122 | 0.010% | 378th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Zahra | 79 | 0.018% | 251st |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Zahra | 5 | 0.008% | 170th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Zahra | 1 | 0.027% | 9th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Zahra is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.02% of children were given it – 30 of them.
Zahra: rank by region
In 2025, Zahra was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Zahra | 181 | 31 |
In 2024, Zahra was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Zahra | 8 | 1 |
In 2025, Zahra was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Małopolskie | Zahra | 232 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Zahra appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (86th), Province of Antwerp (136th) and Province of East Flanders (250th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Zahra by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 51 | 246th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Zahra among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Zahra +1 spelling | 403 | 515 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Zahra lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 4,749 women called Zahra were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Zahra | 71 | 1.640 | 138 |
| Almería | Zahra | 267 | 0.708 | 203 |
| Huelva | Zahra | 166 | 0.612 | 225 |
| Tarragona | Zahra | 246 | 0.563 | 256 |
| Murcia | Zahra | 433 | 0.547 | 249 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Zahra | 125 | 0.396 | 305 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Zahra against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.