Zamira
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- zah-MEER-uh
- Origin
- Hebrew
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #1,318 for girls
Zamira is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “song, melody”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 1,318th for girls in the US (169 babies).
What does Zamira mean?
Hebrew: feminine form of Zamir
“song, melody”
A feminine form of Zamir, from a Hebrew word for song or songbird.
Is Zamira a girl's or a boy's name?
Zamira is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 169 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zamira in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 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, 4 girls in the UK were named Zamira, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2016, with 5 girls.
2025 had more girls named Zamira than any year since 2018.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Zamira in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 1 | #7,491 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 1 | #5,865 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
How popular is Zamira in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,318th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 169 about 1 in 9,500 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 60% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 169 girls in the US were named Zamira, making it the 1,318th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,135th. It first appears in the records in 1979.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 5 years. 2025 had the most girls named Zamira of any year since it first appeared, in 1979.
Half of all the girls named Zamira in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 221 girls in the US were given Zamira or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #994, up from #1,318 for this spelling alone.
Zamira in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 169 | #1,318 |
| 2024 | 139 | #1,536 |
| 2023 | 134 | #1,578 |
| 2022 | 99 | #1,974 |
| 2021 | 87 | #2,154 |
| 2020 | 85 | #2,135 |
| 2019 | 90 | #2,090 |
| 2018 | 101 | #1,953 |
| 2017 | 85 | #2,221 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,082 |
| 2015 | 61 | #2,846 |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,423 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,701 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,385 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,915 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,888 |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,360 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,178 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,566 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,918 |
| 2005 | 44 | #3,400 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,168 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,105 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,440 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,565 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,486 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,233 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,011 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,478 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,576 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,509 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,580 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,773 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,730 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,495 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,820 |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,208 |
Names like Zamira
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Zainab, Hafsa, Abeeha, Hiba, Aaliyah, Rahma, Nusaybah, Amira, Halima, Khadija, Safiya
Other spellings of Zamira
Names related to Zamira
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
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, “Zamira: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zamira, updated 20 October 2026.