Zarah Girl
How popular is Zarah?
#1,427 girl name in 2025
151 baby girls were named Zarah in the US in 2025, making it the 1427th most popular girl name.
Zarah popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,427 for girls (▼ 44 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 151 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+24% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,719 in 2015, #1,510 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2022 (199 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1,216 in 2022 |
| First recorded | 1968 |
| 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 |
Zarah counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Zara family of names ranked #153 for girls in 2025 (#166 the year before), with 2,187 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Zara | 1,432 | 65% |
| Zahra | 562 | 26% |
| Zarah | 151 | 7% |
| Zarai | 19 | 1% |
| Zahrah | 16 | 1% |
| Zarrah | 7 | 0% |
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 Zarah is most popular
Babies named Zarah per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Virginia: 0.2 per 1,000 (41 girls)
- Maryland: 0.2 per 1,000 (22 girls)
- Pennsylvania: 0.2 per 1,000 (45 girls)
- Georgia: 0.2 per 1,000 (43 girls)
- Florida: 0.2 per 1,000 (73 girls)
Zarah by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10 | #7,014 |
| 1970s | 35 | #5,530 |
| 1980s | 117 | #5,060 |
| 1990s | 204 | #3,440 |
| 2000s | 505 | #2,395 |
| 2010s | 1,107 | #1,505 |
| 2020s | 979 | #1,216 |
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Questions
- Is Zarah a boy or girl name?
- Zarah is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Zarah were girls.
- How popular is the name Zarah?
- 151 baby girls were named Zarah in the US in 2025, making it the 1427th most popular girl name.
- When was Zarah most popular?
- Zarah peaked in 2022, when 199 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1,216 in 2022.
- How many people are named Zarah?
- 2,957 babies have been named Zarah in the US since 1880. We estimate about 2,935 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 10.
- Where is Zarah most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Zarah was most common in Virginia, at 0.2 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.