How Many People Are Named Zahra?
people named Zahra are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 36,695 people in the US has this name
Based on 9,395 babies named Zahra in Social Security records from 1973 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
562 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "brilliant, bright" in Arabic. This is an epithet of the Prophet Muhammad's daughter Fatimah.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Zahra in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Zahra alive today is about 12 years old, and 92% are under 30. Half of them were between 4 and 17 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Zahra first appears in the records in 1973, and 2025 was its biggest year so far, with 562 babies.
Babies given the name each year, 1973 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Zahra has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #540, in 2025. In 2025 it ranked #540.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #540 |
| Best rank | #540 (2025) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #775 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Zahra alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Zahra were born in California than in any other state: about 1,227 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Zahra was given 2.3 times as often in Maryland, 2.2 times in New York and 2.1 times in New Jersey.
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