Meaning not yet researched.
Zaira: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 224 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,081 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Zaira in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,081 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Zaira: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 224 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,081 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 224 (2025).
In 2025, 224 US girls were named Zaira, making it the 1,081st most common girls’ name of the year, up 149 places from #1,230 in 2024. That is 32 more than the 192 girls named Zaira in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,081, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 224. For comparison, it was #1,574 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zaira in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 5 babies. In all, 4,986 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,393 babies named Zaira.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,688 US girls were named Zaira; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 224. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,175 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zaira ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #507 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), Saira (3,645 babies since 1880), Sara (437,441 babies since 1880) and Zahra (9,395 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zaierra are summarised on this page.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zaierra (27).
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 Zaira 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 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 6 | #507 | — |
| California | 52 | #615 | #1,053 |
| Illinois | 13 | #747 | #1,161 |
| New York | 18 | #901 | #2,209 |
| Texas | 32 | #916 | #1,267 |
| Maryland | 5 | #997 | — |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #998 | — |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,073 | — |
| Florida | 14 | #1,108 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,278 | #1,387 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,692 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 224 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 2024 | 192 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 2023 | 187 | #1,243 | — | — |
| 2022 | 193 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 2021 | 220 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 2020 | 134 | #1,577 | — | — |
| 2019 | 151 | #1,464 | — | — |
| 2018 | 127 | #1,662 | — | — |
| 2017 | 157 | #1,448 | — | — |
| 2016 | 103 | #1,954 | — | — |
| 2015 | 140 | #1,574 | — | — |
| 2014 | 122 | #1,726 | — | — |
| 2013 | 155 | #1,450 | — | — |
| 2012 | 116 | #1,780 | — | — |
| 2011 | 153 | #1,468 | — | — |
| 2010 | 169 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 2009 | 169 | #1,404 | — | — |
| 2008 | 168 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 2007 | 156 | #1,488 | — | — |
| 2006 | 161 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 2005 | 136 | #1,524 | — | — |
| 2004 | 132 | #1,527 | — | — |
| 2003 | 111 | #1,719 | — | — |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 2001 | 111 | #1,653 | — | — |
| 2000 | 103 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 1999 | 90 | #1,785 | — | — |
| 1998 | 87 | #1,800 | — | — |
| 1997 | 96 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 1996 | 80 | #1,839 | — | — |
| 1995 | 87 | #1,701 | — | — |
| 1994 | 72 | #1,971 | — | — |
| 1993 | 76 | #1,881 | — | — |
| 1992 | 104 | #1,522 | — | — |
| 1991 | 73 | #1,932 | — | — |
| 1990 | 76 | #1,879 | — | — |
| 1989 | 52 | #2,303 | — | — |
| 1988 | 31 | #3,224 | — | — |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,856 | — | — |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,609 | — | — |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,455 | — | — |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,736 | — | — |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,306 | — | — |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,944 | — | — |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,252 | — | — |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,326 | — | — |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,426 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,641 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,438 | — | — |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,293 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #9,062 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,767 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,660 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,349 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,698 | — | — |
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).