Nahara
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- na-HAR-a
- US rank, 2025
- #3,167 for girls
Nahara is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 3,167th for girls in the US (50 babies).
Where does Nahara come from?
Uncertain; compare Aramaic nehora 'light' and Arabic nahar 'daytime'
Is Nahara a girl's or a boy's name?
Nahara is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 50 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nahara in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,167among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 50about 1 in 32,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 28% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 50 girls in the US were named Nahara, making it the 3,167th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,079th. It first appears in the records in 2005.
2025 had the most girls named Nahara of any year since it first appeared, in 2005.
Half of all the girls named Nahara in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Nahara in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #3,167 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,050 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,462 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,686 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,079 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,161 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,788 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,872 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
Names like Nahara
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amoura Zamira Safa Zahara Naziyah Zhamira Abeeha Zayla Nusaybah Zaniyah Zaliyah Amira
Names related to Nahara
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, “Nahara: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nahara, updated 20 October 2026.