Zahira
#3,645 for girls in 2025, 41 births
- Peak · girls
- 2008 · 69 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,226since 1975
Zahira over time
Rank among girls' names. Zahira has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,645 | 41 |
| 2024 | #3,892 | 38 |
| 2023 | #3,984 | 37 |
| 2022 | #3,595 | 43 |
| 2021 | #3,339 | 47 |
| 2020 | #4,548 | 29 |
| 2019 | #4,260 | 33 |
| 2018 | #5,315 | 24 |
| 2017 | #3,627 | 42 |
| 2016 | #4,083 | 36 |
| 2015 | #4,069 | 36 |
| 2014 | #4,003 | 37 |
| 2013 | #3,918 | 38 |
| 2012 | #4,216 | 35 |
| 2011 | #3,999 | 37 |
| 2010 | #3,123 | 53 |
| 2009 | #3,126 | 54 |
| 2008 | #2,663 | 69 |
| 2007 | #3,125 | 55 |
| 2006 | #2,778 | 63 |
| 2005 | #4,029 | 35 |
| 2004 | #3,748 | 38 |
| 2003 | #3,946 | 34 |
| 2002 | #4,381 | 28 |
| 2001 | #5,364 | 21 |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 |
| 1999 | #5,219 | 20 |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 |
| 1997 | #6,483 | 14 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 |
| 1990 | #4,523 | 21 |
| 1989 | #3,104 | 34 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 |
| 1987 | — | |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 |
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| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 |
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| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Zahira! It came in at #9,067, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1980, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Zahira is popular in 1999
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,734 · 1 in 36,509
Best ever in a state: #1,182 in Pennsylvania, 2001.
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| California | #2,734 | 6 | 1 in 36,509 |
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See more about Zahira
- 247 spots since 2024 (#3,892 → #3,645)
- 903 spots since 2020 (#4,548 → #3,645)
- 424 spots since 2015 (#4,069 → #3,645)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2008 at #2,663 (69 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 27,405 girls born in 2008 were named Zahira (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 39,202 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 33.5% of all girls named Zahira (411) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #9,067 (1975) | #9,067 |
| 1980s | 80 | #3,104 (1989) | #8,359 |
| 1990s | 124 | #4,523 (1990) | #7,754 |
| 2000s | 411 | #2,663 (2008) | #4,032 |
| 2010s | 371 | #3,123 (2010) | #4,061 |
| 2020s | 235 | #3,339 (2021) | #3,834 |
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.
Zahira in 1999
Top girls' names in 1999
More about 1999
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1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 88,691 of them was named Zahira, which outranked 69.2% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
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- #5,219Zahira20
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- #5,219Aidee20
- #5,424Abriel19
- #5,424Adama19
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Tied with 204 names at #5,219; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.