Jahara
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- juh-HAR-uh
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Jahara is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
Where does Jahara come from?
Modern: perhaps a variant of Zahara or Jahaira
Is Jahara a girl's or a boy's name?
Jahara is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Jahara in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Jahara, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 1988.
Half of all the girls named Jahara in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Jahara in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,788 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,443 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,094 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,878 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,189 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,329 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,562 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,423 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,581 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,308 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,139 |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,792 |
Names like Jahara
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Janiyah, Jaliyah, Adhara, Kaliyah, Amira, Amoura, Anaya, Araya, Zaniyah, Zayla, Avaya, Samira
Names related to Jahara
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Jahara: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jahara, updated 20 October 2026.