Meaning not yet researched.
Zara: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,432 in 2025. Its best rank was #201 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #201 in 2022; #212 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zara in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#212 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #201.
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Zara: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,432 girls in 2025. Peak: #201 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 1,441 (2022).
In 2025, 1,432 US girls were named Zara, making it the 212th most common girls’ name of the year, up 22 places from #234 in 2024. That is 99 more than the 1,333 girls named Zara in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #201, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,441. For comparison, it was #402 in 2015 and #6,103 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zara in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1896 with 5 babies. In all, 20,930 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 8,367 babies named Zara.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 13,023 US girls were named Zara; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 1,441. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,122 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zara ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #108 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sarah (1,101,838 babies since 1880), Sara (437,441 babies since 1880), Zora (10,248 babies since 1880) and Zaira (4,986 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zahraa, Zaraya and Zala 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 Arabic and Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zahraa (1,090), Zaraya (353), Zala (275), Zahyra (47).
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 Zara 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 9 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 8 | #108 | #89 |
| North Dakota | 9 | #116 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 84 | #123 | #388 |
| Rhode Island | 7 | #149 | — |
| Virginia | 51 | #159 | #278 |
| Nevada | 16 | #164 | — |
| Alaska | 5 | #172 | — |
| New Jersey | 46 | #178 | #251 |
| New York | 89 | #187 | #210 |
| Florida | 96 | #193 | #400 |
| Maryland | 27 | #194 | #211 |
| Arkansas | 16 | #197 | — |
| Texas | 167 | #205 | #392 |
| Connecticut | 17 | #205 | #445 |
| Washington | 34 | #219 | #408 |
| Minnesota | 26 | #220 | #665 |
| Missouri | 29 | #220 | #945 |
| Kansas | 15 | #221 | — |
| Utah | 22 | #222 | #713 |
| Georgia | 48 | #222 | #400 |
| Michigan | 41 | #222 | #382 |
| Arizona | 31 | #229 | #604 |
| North Carolina | 48 | #229 | #709 |
| Illinois | 45 | #230 | #326 |
| Indiana | 31 | #233 | #444 |
| Ohio | 49 | #233 | #512 |
| New Hampshire | 6 | #235 | — |
| Wisconsin | 24 | #236 | #679 |
| California | 141 | #238 | #279 |
| Idaho | 10 | #243 | — |
| Massachusetts | 24 | #244 | #343 |
| Kentucky | 19 | #247 | — |
| Colorado | 22 | #287 | #1,033 |
| South Carolina | 18 | #293 | — |
| Louisiana | 15 | #321 | — |
| Alabama | 14 | #371 | #606 |
| Oklahoma | 12 | #373 | — |
| New Mexico | 5 | #389 | — |
| Iowa | 8 | #436 | — |
| Mississippi | 7 | #438 | — |
| Tennessee | 17 | #477 | #671 |
| Oregon | 8 | #482 | #669 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,432 | #212 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,333 | #234 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,285 | #236 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,441 | #201 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,413 | #212 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,335 | #217 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,321 | #239 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,282 | #254 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,157 | #283 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,024 | #319 | — | — |
| 2015 | 809 | #402 | — | — |
| 2014 | 765 | #421 | — | — |
| 2013 | 630 | #484 | — | — |
| 2012 | 537 | #552 | — | — |
| 2011 | 449 | #635 | — | — |
| 2010 | 393 | #719 | — | — |
| 2009 | 367 | #775 | — | — |
| 2008 | 376 | #782 | — | — |
| 2007 | 408 | #718 | — | — |
| 2006 | 312 | #857 | — | — |
| 2005 | 270 | #924 | — | — |
| 2004 | 179 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 2003 | 222 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 2002 | 145 | #1,344 | — | — |
| 2001 | 142 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 2000 | 121 | #1,517 | — | — |
| 1999 | 111 | #1,538 | — | — |
| 1998 | 90 | #1,761 | — | — |
| 1997 | 70 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 1996 | 81 | #1,825 | — | — |
| 1995 | 64 | #2,124 | — | — |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,928 | — | — |
| 1993 | 52 | #2,450 | — | — |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,611 | — | — |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,419 | — | — |
| 1990 | 66 | #2,052 | — | — |
| 1989 | 50 | #2,370 | — | — |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,802 | — | — |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,722 | — | — |
| 1986 | 47 | #2,227 | — | — |
| 1985 | 31 | #3,006 | — | — |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,421 | — | — |
| 1983 | 42 | #2,309 | — | — |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,343 | — | — |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,251 | — | — |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,939 | — | — |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,077 | — | — |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,097 | — | — |
| 1977 | 18 | #4,068 | — | — |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,960 | — | — |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,880 | — | — |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,862 | — | — |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,970 | — | — |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,542 | — | — |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,121 | — | — |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,433 | — | — |
| 1969 | 10 | #5,054 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,846 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,561 | — | — |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,470 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,586 | — | — |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,861 | — | — |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,305 | — | — |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,692 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,198 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #7,027 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #7,008 | — | — |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,492 | — | — |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,373 | — | — |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,963 | — | — |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,593 | — | — |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,905 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #6,103 | — | — |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,610 | — | — |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,703 | — | — |
| 1946 | 12 | #3,031 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,553 | — | — |
| 1944 | 7 | #4,049 | — | — |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,194 | — | — |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,665 | — | — |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,734 | — | — |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,428 | — | — |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,727 | — | — |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,250 | — | — |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,889 | — | — |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,448 | — | — |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,403 | — | — |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,567 | — | — |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,972 | — | — |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,393 | — | — |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,162 | — | — |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,871 | — | — |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,266 | — | — |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,615 | — | — |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,972 | — | — |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,968 | — | — |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,149 | — | — |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,629 | — | — |
| 1920 | 11 | #3,091 | — | — |
| 1919 | 11 | #3,003 | — | — |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,509 | — | — |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,877 | — | — |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,254 | — | — |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,124 | — | — |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,162 | — | — |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,841 | — | — |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,791 | — | — |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,769 | — | — |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,673 | — | — |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,872 | — | — |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,429 | — | — |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,840 | — | — |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,823 | — | — |
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).