Zaharah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- za-HAR-a
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Zaharah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “radiant; also flower”. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
What does Zaharah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Zahara, itself a variant of Zahra
“radiant; also flower”
A longer form of Zahra, which can mean radiant or flower in Arabic.
Meaning borrowed from Zahara.
Is Zaharah a girl's or a boy's name?
Zaharah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zaharah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,454th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 160,000 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, 10 girls in the US were named Zaharah, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 22 girls. It first appears in the records in 2006.
Half of all the girls named Zaharah in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 184 girls in the US were given Zaharah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,109, up from #9,454 for this spelling alone.
- Zahara 174
- Zaharah 10
Zaharah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,590 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,608 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,814 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,897 |
Names like Zaharah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaniyah, Nusaybah, Zaliyah, Aaliyah, Hadassah, Zainab, Safa, Zakiyah, Naziyah, Safiya, Samiyah, Aziyah
Other spellings of Zaharah
Names related to Zaharah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Hamza, Kairo
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, “Zaharah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zaharah, updated 20 October 2026.