Zahara
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- za-HAR-a
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,690 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #1,285 for girls
Zahara is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “radiant; also flower”. In 2025 it ranked 1,690th for girls in the UK (18 babies) and 1,285th for girls in the US (174 babies).
What does Zahara mean?
Arabic: variant of Zahra
“radiant; also flower”
A longer form of Zahra, which can mean radiant or flower in Arabic.
Is Zahara a girl's or a boy's name?
Zahara is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls in the UK and 174 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zahara in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,690th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 18 about 1 in 15,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 29% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 18 girls in the UK were named Zahara, making it the 1,690th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,046th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 33 girls.
Half of all the girls named Zahara in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,639th in England and Wales.
Zahara in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #1,690 |
| 2024 | 9 | #2,832 |
| 2023 | 15 | #1,955 |
| 2022 | 21 | #1,527 |
| 2021 | 14 | #2,069 |
| 2020 | 14 | #2,046 |
| 2019 | 25 | #1,368 |
| 2018 | 20 | #1,628 |
| 2017 | 22 | #1,541 |
| 2016 | 16 | #1,941 |
| 2015 | 18 | #1,739 |
| 2014 | 18 | #1,722 |
| 2013 | 32 | #1,165 |
| 2012 | 22 | #1,516 |
| 2011 | 21 | #1,518 |
| 2010 | 16 | #1,829 |
| 2009 | 19 | #1,556 |
| 2008 | 33 | #1,015 |
| 2007 | 24 | #1,243 |
| 2006 | 27 | #1,087 |
| 2005 | 15 | #1,608 |
| 2004 | 6 | #2,957 |
| 2003 | 5 | #3,233 |
| 2002 | 5 | #3,047 |
| 2001 | 6 | #2,587 |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
| 1999 | 5 | #2,912 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 1 | #5,110 |
How popular is Zahara in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,285th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 174 about 1 in 9,200 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 15% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 174 girls in the US were named Zahara, making it the 1,285th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,349th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 202 girls. It first appears in the records in 1986.
2025 had fewer girls named Zahara than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Zahara in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 184 girls in the US were given Zahara or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,109, up from #1,285 for this spelling alone.
- Zahara 174
- Zaharah 10
Zahara in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 174 | #1,285 |
| 2024 | 197 | #1,202 |
| 2023 | 181 | #1,269 |
| 2022 | 202 | #1,190 |
| 2021 | 202 | #1,197 |
| 2020 | 163 | #1,349 |
| 2019 | 165 | #1,366 |
| 2018 | 150 | #1,461 |
| 2017 | 160 | #1,422 |
| 2016 | 166 | #1,403 |
| 2015 | 163 | #1,416 |
| 2014 | 135 | #1,590 |
| 2013 | 137 | #1,570 |
| 2012 | 159 | #1,432 |
| 2011 | 151 | #1,480 |
| 2010 | 152 | #1,481 |
| 2009 | 148 | #1,528 |
| 2008 | 160 | #1,468 |
| 2007 | 134 | #1,655 |
| 2006 | 173 | #1,342 |
| 2005 | 81 | #2,238 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,204 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,216 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,692 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,829 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,202 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,216 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,714 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,012 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,718 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,672 |
| 1994 | 15 | #5,978 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,712 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,308 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,423 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,297 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,031 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,106 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,820 |
| 1986 | 5 | #10,907 |
Names like Zahara
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Zainab, Hafsa, Aaliyah, Hiba, Abeeha, Rahma, Amira, Safiya, Khadija, Halima, Sumayyah
Other spellings of Zahara
Names related to Zahara
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Hamza, Kairo, Liyana
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Zahara: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zahara, updated 20 October 2026.