Zahara

#1,285 for girls in 2025, 174 births

Peak · girls
2022 · 202 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,609
since 1986

Zahara over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Zahara has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202005girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#1,285174
2024#1,202197
2023#1,269181
2022#1,190202
2021#1,197202
2020#1,349163
2019#1,366165
2018#1,461150
2017#1,422160
2016#1,403166
2015#1,416163
2014#1,590135
2013#1,570137
2012#1,432159
2011#1,480151
2010#1,481152
2009#1,528148
2008#1,468160
2007#1,655134
2006#1,342173
2005#2,23981
2004#5,20824
2003#4,22031
2002#6,69816
2001#4,83424
2000#6,20817
1999#8,22311
1998#6,71914
1997#9,0179
1996#6,72313
1995#5,67716
1994#5,98415
1993#8,7199
1992#13,3175
1991#7,43011
1990#7,30311
1989#8,0379
1988#7,11110
1987#9,8256
1986#10,9125
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First appearance
1986

The first year at least five girls were named Zahara! It came in at #10,912, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1986–1987, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.

Where Zahara is popular in 2005

  • Rank in state
  • Top 10
  • 11–50
  • 51–100
  • 101–500
  • 501+
  • Not published
Alaska: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedAKMaine: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedMEVermont: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedVTNew Hampshire: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedNHWashington: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedWAIdaho: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedIDMontana: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedMTNorth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedNDMinnesota: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedMNIllinois: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedILWisconsin: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedWIMichigan: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedMINew York: #1,393 for girls · 9 births · 1 in 10,564 girlsNYMassachusetts: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedMARhode Island: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedRIOregon: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedORNevada: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedNVWyoming: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedWYSouth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedSDIowa: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedIAIndiana: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedINOhio: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedOHPennsylvania: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedPANew Jersey: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedNJConnecticut: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedCTCalifornia: #1,825 for girls · 13 births · 1 in 17,725 girlsCAUtah: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedUTColorado: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedCONebraska: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedNEMissouri: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedMOKentucky: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedKYWest Virginia: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedWVVirginia: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedVAMaryland: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedMDDelaware: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedDEArizona: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedAZNew Mexico: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedNMKansas: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedKSArkansas: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedARTennessee: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedTNNorth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedNCSouth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedSCDistrict of Columbia: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedDCOklahoma: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedOKLouisiana: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedLAMississippi: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedMSAlabama: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedALGeorgia: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedGAHawaii: fewer than 5 girls named Zahara, so not publishedHITexas: #2,143 for girls · 8 births · 1 in 20,076 girlsTXFlorida: #1,277 for girls · 9 births · 1 in 9,523 girlsFL

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Top states · girls
  1. Florida#1,277 · 1 in 9,523
  2. New York#1,393 · 1 in 10,564
  3. California#1,825 · 1 in 17,725
  4. Texas#2,143 · 1 in 20,076

Best ever in a state: #119 in District of Columbia, 2025.

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New York#1,39391 in 10,564
California#1,825131 in 17,725
Texas#2,14381 in 20,076
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.

See more about Zahara
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 83 spots since 2024 (#1,202 → #1,285)
  • 64 spots since 2020 (#1,349 → #1,285)
  • 131 spots since 2015 (#1,416 → #1,285)
Rise & fade · girls
36 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1986
  • Peaked 2022 at #1,190 (202 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 8,119
  • Highest: 1 in 8,119 girls born in 2022 were named Zahara (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 9,237 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 42.6% of all girls named Zahara (1,538) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s30#7,111 (1988)#8,971
1990s114#5,677 (1995)#7,911
2000s808#1,342 (2006)#3,540
2010s1,538#1,366 (2019)#1,462
2020s1,119#1,190 (2022)#1,249

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Zahara in 2005

girls
#2,239
81 births · 1 in 22,813 girls

Top girls' names in 2005

  1. #1Emily23,952
  2. #2Emma20,362
  3. #3Madison19,578
  4. #4Abigail15,756
  5. #5Olivia15,700
  6. #6Isabella15,197
  7. #7Hannah14,854
  8. #8Samantha13,642
  9. #9Ava13,606
  10. #10Ashley13,276
  11. #2,239Zahara81
More about 2005

girls

1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 22,813 of them was named Zahara, which outranked 88.3% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zahara
  1. #2,225Taina82
  2. #2,225Tasha82
  3. #2,225Whitley82
  4. #2,239Zahara81
  5. #2,239Amayah81
  6. #2,239Annamaria81
  7. #2,239Calla81
  8. #2,254Allana80
  9. #2,254Aminah80
  10. #2,254Ashli80

Tied with 14 names at #2,239; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2004
Risers
  1. ↑ 6,271Mikalah#7,077 → #806
  2. ↑ 2,724Yuridia#3,689 → #965
  3. ↑ 2,236Naima#3,127 → #891
  4. ↑ 1,924Karol#2,742 → #818
  5. ↑ 1,125Karma#1,972 → #847
Fallers
  1. ↓ 397Rhea#908 → #1,305
  2. ↓ 360Laisha#789 → #1,149
  3. ↓ 334Ashtyn#956 → #1,290
  4. ↓ 285Hunter#742 → #1,027
  5. ↓ 282Angeles#973 → #1,255

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2005 →