Zamarah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- zuh-MAR-uh
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Zamarah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
Where does Zamarah come from?
Modern: spelling of Zamara; probably a Z- variant of Samara or Tamara
Meaning borrowed from Zamara.
Is Zamarah a girl's or a boy's name?
Zamarah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zamarah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 22% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Zamarah, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2024, with 23 girls. It first appears in the records in 2005.
2025 had fewer girls named Zamarah than any year since 2015.
Half of all the girls named Zamarah in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 68 girls in the US were given Zamarah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,186, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
- Zamara 61
- Zamarah 7
Zamarah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,440 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,712 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,142 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,671 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
Names like Zamarah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaniyah, Zaliyah, Hadassah, Zalayah, Aziyah, Zamiyah, Nusaybah, Alaiyah, Kaliyah, Naziyah, Jaziyah, Kamiyah
Other spellings of Zamarah
Names related to Zamarah
Zamari, Samarah, Zamirah, Zamaria, Zamariah, Zamoura, Zamorah
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, “Zamarah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zamarah, updated 20 October 2026.