Meaning not yet researched.
Zahara: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 174 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,197 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,197 in 2021; #1,289 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zahara in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,289 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,197.
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Zahara: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 174 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,197 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 202 (2022).
In 2025, 174 US girls were named Zahara, making it the 1,289th most common girls’ name of the year, down 83 places from #1,206 in 2024. That is 23 fewer than the 197 girls named Zahara in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,197, reached in 2021. The most girls given the name in a single year was 202, in 2022. For comparison, it was #1,424 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zahara in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1986 with 5 babies. In all, 3,609 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,538 babies named Zahara.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,760 US girls were named Zahara; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 202. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,237 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zahara ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #149 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zara (20,930 babies since 1880), Zahra (9,395 babies since 1880), Zaira (4,986 babies since 1880) and Sahara (4,734 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Zahara in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 6 | #149 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #870 | — |
| Ohio | 10 | #958 | #1,065 |
| Maryland | 5 | #996 | #887 |
| Florida | 15 | #1,052 | #987 |
| New York | 13 | #1,161 | #784 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,211 | — |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,238 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,276 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,350 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,371 | — |
| California | 14 | #1,646 | #1,814 |
| Texas | 13 | #1,784 | #1,710 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 174 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 2024 | 197 | #1,206 | — | — |
| 2023 | 181 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 2022 | 202 | #1,198 | — | — |
| 2021 | 202 | #1,197 | — | — |
| 2020 | 163 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 2019 | 165 | #1,372 | — | — |
| 2018 | 150 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 2017 | 160 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 2016 | 166 | #1,405 | — | — |
| 2015 | 163 | #1,424 | — | — |
| 2014 | 135 | #1,601 | — | — |
| 2013 | 137 | #1,575 | — | — |
| 2012 | 159 | #1,444 | — | — |
| 2011 | 151 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 2010 | 152 | #1,488 | — | — |
| 2009 | 148 | #1,537 | — | — |
| 2008 | 160 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 2007 | 134 | #1,665 | — | — |
| 2006 | 173 | #1,350 | — | — |
| 2005 | 81 | #2,253 | — | — |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,373 | — | — |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,305 | — | — |
| 2002 | 16 | #7,040 | — | — |
| 2001 | 24 | #5,007 | — | — |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,480 | — | — |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,794 | — | — |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,098 | — | — |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,792 | — | — |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,124 | — | — |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,955 | — | — |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,314 | — | — |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,552 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,597 | — | — |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,983 | — | — |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,874 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,755 | — | — |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,686 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,313 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,824 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).