Zarah

#1,427 for girls in 2025, 151 births

Peak · girls
2022 · 199 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,957
since 1968

Zarah over time

girls

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202002girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#1,427151
2024#1,383163
2023#1,421157
2022#1,216199
2021#1,331168
2020#1,510141
2019#1,528141
2018#1,762116
2017#1,505147
2016#1,743119
2015#1,719122
2014#2,09692
2013#2,27981
2012#1,97399
2011#2,02696
2010#2,09394
2009#2,39680
2008#2,55773
2007#2,96460
2006#2,60269
2005#3,64640
2004#4,38731
2003#3,29144
2002#3,81034
2001#3,41739
2000#3,66435
1999#3,44336
1998#5,36319
1997#5,22819
1996#4,73921
1995#5,22118
1994#4,68721
1993#4,39323
1992#5,71816
1991#6,25314
1990#5,28617
1989#5,83614
1988#5,06516
1987#6,78810
1986#5,18814
1985#5,07714
1984#7,3988
1983#9,0156
1982#5,53412
1981#5,57112
1980#5,91211
1979#5,75111
1978#6,9488
1977#5,53211
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1968#7,0165
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First appearance
1968

The first year at least five girls were named Zarah! It came in at #7,016, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1968–1976, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Zarah is popular in 2002

No state had 5 or more girls named Zarah in 2002, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zarah
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 44 spots since 2024 (#1,383 → #1,427)
  • 83 spots since 2020 (#1,510 → #1,427)
  • 292 spots since 2015 (#1,719 → #1,427)
Rise & fade · girls
54 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1968
  • Peaked 2022 at #1,216 (199 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 8,242
  • Highest: 1 in 8,242 girls born in 2022 were named Zarah (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 10,644 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 37.4% of all girls named Zarah (1,107) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s10#7,016 (1968)#7,244
1970s35#5,532 (1977)#6,639
1980s117#5,065 (1988)#6,138
1990s204#3,443 (1999)#5,033
2000s505#2,396 (2009)#3,273
2010s1,107#1,505 (2017)#1,872
2020s979#1,216 (2022)#1,381

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.

Zarah in 2002

girls
#3,810
34 births · 1 in 52,849 girls

Top girls' names in 2002

  1. #1Emily24,470
  2. #2Madison21,774
  3. #3Hannah18,828
  4. #4Emma16,558
  5. #5Alexis15,636
  6. #6Ashley15,344
  7. #7Abigail15,303
  8. #8Sarah14,779
  9. #9Samantha14,671
  10. #10Olivia14,631
  11. #3,810Zarah34
More about 2002

girls

1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 52,849 of them was named Zarah, which outranked 78.9% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zarah
  1. #3,730Yuridia35
  2. #3,730Yusra35
  3. #3,730Zykia35
  4. #3,810Zarah34
  5. #3,810Abbagail34
  6. #3,810Adaline34
  7. #3,810Airam34
  8. #3,889Aicha33
  9. #3,889Aissatou33
  10. #3,889Aleeya33

Tied with 78 names at #3,810; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2001
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,168Cadence#2,126 → #958
  2. ↑ 949Lisbeth#1,573 → #624
  3. ↑ 710Ashanti#825 → #115
  4. ↑ 464Elle#1,076 → #612
  5. ↑ 412Nyla#865 → #453
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,141Citlalli#609 → #1,750
  2. ↓ 748Nallely#772 → #1,520
  3. ↓ 617Dafne#967 → #1,584
  4. ↓ 582Beyonce#700 → #1,282
  5. ↓ 540Mikaila#928 → #1,468

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

See the top 100 for 2002 →