Zemirah is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Zemira, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Zemirah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,692 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,692 in 2024; #3,574 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zemirah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,574 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #2,692.
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Zemirah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,692 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 65 (2024).
In 2025, 43 US girls were named Zemirah, making it the 3,574th most common girls’ name of the year, down 882 places from #2,692 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 65 girls named Zemirah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,692, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 65. For comparison, it was #4,230 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zemirah in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1999 with 6 babies. In all, 728 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 360 babies named Zemirah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 441 US girls were named Zemirah; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 65. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,378 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Zemira (835 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 Zemirah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,574 | — | — |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,692 | — | — |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,111 | — | — |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,200 | — | — |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,087 | — | — |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,262 | — | — |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,716 | — | — |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,781 | — | — |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,143 | — | — |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,994 | — | — |
| 2015 | 35 | #4,230 | — | — |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,623 | — | — |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,312 | — | — |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,599 | — | — |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,355 | — | — |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,769 | — | — |
| 2009 | 16 | #8,053 | — | — |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,067 | — | — |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,320 | — | — |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,278 | — | — |
| 2005 | 11 | #10,117 | — | — |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,684 | — | — |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,399 | — | — |
| 2002 | 8 | #12,177 | — | — |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,506 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,399 | — | — |
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).