Zairah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ZAIR-a
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,961 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #6,837 for girls
Zairah is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 1,961st for girls in the UK (15 babies) and 6,837th for girls in the US (16 babies).
What does Zairah mean?
Linked to Arabic za'ira 'visitor', or a form of Zaira or Zara
Can be read as Arabic za'ira, 'visitor', or as a form of Zaira, heroine of Voltaire's tragedy Zaïre and Bellini's opera Zaira.
Is Zairah a girl's or a boy's name?
Zairah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 girls in the UK and 16 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zairah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,961st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 15 about 1 in 19,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 115% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 15 girls in the UK were named Zairah, making it the 1,961st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,630th.
2025 had the most girls named Zairah of any year since it first appeared, in 2000.
Half of all the girls named Zairah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,892nd in England and Wales.
Zairah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #1,961 |
| 2024 | 10 | #2,644 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,630 |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 2 | #7,600 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
| 2007 | 6 | #3,396 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 3 | #4,156 |
| 2000 | 4 | #3,399 |
How popular is Zairah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,837th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 16 about 1 in 100,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 16% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 16 girls in the US were named Zairah, making it the 6,837th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2010, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.
2025 had more girls named Zairah than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Zairah in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zairah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,837 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,590 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,021 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,088 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,263 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,711 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,131 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,610 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,901 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,676 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,234 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,684 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
Names like Zairah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Zainab, Nusaybah, Ayah, Hafsa, Aaliyah, Ruqayyah, Sumayyah, Hiba, Rahma, Izzah, Safaa
Names related to Zairah
Zara, Zarah, Zaira, Zariah, Zariyah, Zaria, Zahrah, Zahira, Zaryah
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, “Zairah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zairah, updated 20 October 2026.