Zahara Girl
How popular is Zahara?
#1,285 girl name in 2025
174 baby girls were named Zahara in the US in 2025, making it the 1285th most popular girl name.
Zahara popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,285 for girls (▼ 83 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 174 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (+7% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,416 in 2015, #1,349 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2021 (202 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1,190 in 2022 |
| First recorded | 1986 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Zahara counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Zahara family of names ranked #1,067 for girls in 2025 (#984 the year before), with 184 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Zahara | 174 | 95% |
| Zaharah | 10 | 5% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Zahara is most popular
Babies named Zahara per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- District of Columbia: 0.5 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- Georgia: 0.2 per 1,000 (56 girls)
- Maryland: 0.2 per 1,000 (25 girls)
- New York: 0.2 per 1,000 (79 girls)
- Pennsylvania: 0.2 per 1,000 (44 girls)
Zahara by decade
Girl names about as popular as Zahara
Questions
- Is Zahara a boy or girl name?
- Zahara is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Zahara were girls.
- How popular is the name Zahara?
- 174 baby girls were named Zahara in the US in 2025, making it the 1285th most popular girl name.
- When was Zahara most popular?
- Zahara peaked in 2021, when 202 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1,190 in 2022.
- How many people are named Zahara?
- 3,609 babies have been named Zahara in the US since 1880. We estimate about 3,588 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 11.
- Where is Zahara most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Zahara was most common in District of Columbia, at 0.5 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.