Zarah
#1,427 for girls in 2025, 151 births
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 199 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,957since 1968
Zarah over time
Rank among girls' names. Zarah has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #1,427 | 151 |
| 2024 | #1,383 | 163 |
| 2023 | #1,421 | 157 |
| 2022 | #1,216 | 199 |
| 2021 | #1,331 | 168 |
| 2020 | #1,510 | 141 |
| 2019 | #1,528 | 141 |
| 2018 | #1,762 | 116 |
| 2017 | #1,505 | 147 |
| 2016 | #1,743 | 119 |
| 2015 | #1,719 | 122 |
| 2014 | #2,096 | 92 |
| 2013 | #2,279 | 81 |
| 2012 | #1,973 | 99 |
| 2011 | #2,026 | 96 |
| 2010 | #2,093 | 94 |
| 2009 | #2,396 | 80 |
| 2008 | #2,557 | 73 |
| 2007 | #2,964 | 60 |
| 2006 | #2,602 | 69 |
| 2005 | #3,646 | 40 |
| 2004 | #4,387 | 31 |
| 2003 | #3,291 | 44 |
| 2002 | #3,810 | 34 |
| 2001 | #3,417 | 39 |
| 2000 | #3,664 | 35 |
| 1999 | #3,443 | 36 |
| 1998 | #5,363 | 19 |
| 1997 | #5,228 | 19 |
| 1996 | #4,739 | 21 |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 |
| 1994 | #4,687 | 21 |
| 1993 | #4,393 | 23 |
| 1992 | #5,718 | 16 |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 |
| 1990 | #5,286 | 17 |
| 1989 | #5,836 | 14 |
| 1988 | #5,065 | 16 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 |
| 1986 | #5,188 | 14 |
| 1985 | #5,077 | 14 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 |
| 1982 | #5,534 | 12 |
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 |
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| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 |
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| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
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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 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#761 · 1 in 4,064
- Maryland#894 · 1 in 4,808
- New York#980 · 1 in 5,615
- Arizona#1,085 · 1 in 6,189
- Florida#1,252 · 1 in 8,671
Best ever in a state: #508 in Nevada, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #761 | 9 | 1 in 4,064 |
| Maryland | #894 | 5 | 1 in 4,808 |
| New York | #980 | 16 | 1 in 5,615 |
| Arizona | #1,085 | 5 | 1 in 6,189 |
| Florida | #1,252 | 10 | 1 in 8,671 |
| Illinois | #1,607 | 5 | 1 in 11,525 |
| Texas | #1,697 | 13 | 1 in 12,869 |
| California | #1,899 | 12 | 1 in 16,977 |
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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 Zarah
- 44 spots since 2024 (#1,383 → #1,427)
- 83 spots since 2020 (#1,510 → #1,427)
- 292 spots since 2015 (#1,719 → #1,427)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 2022 at #1,216 (199 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 37.4% of all girls named Zarah (1,107) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10 | #7,016 (1968) | #7,244 |
| 1970s | 35 | #5,532 (1977) | #6,639 |
| 1980s | 117 | #5,065 (1988) | #6,138 |
| 1990s | 204 | #3,443 (1999) | #5,033 |
| 2000s | 505 | #2,396 (2009) | #3,273 |
| 2010s | 1,107 | #1,505 (2017) | #1,872 |
| 2020s | 979 | #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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
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1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 14,891 of them was named Zarah, which outranked 90.8% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,735Millicent120
- #1,735Salome120
- #1,735Stacey120
- #1,743Zarah119
- #1,743Cori119
- #1,743Eiza119
- #1,743Harleen119
- #1,757Abygail118
- #1,757Analeah118
- #1,757Ashly118
Tied with 13 names at #1,743; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.