Zamirah

Gender: Girl
Say it: zah-MEER-uh
Origin: Hebrew
US rank, 2025: #3,779 for girls

Zamirah is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “song, melody”. In 2025 it ranked 3,779th for girls in the US (39 babies).

What does Zamirah mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Zamira; feminine form of Zamir

“song, melody”

A feminine form of Zamir, from a Hebrew word for song or songbird.

Meaning borrowed from Zamira.

Is Zamirah a girl's or a boy's name?

Zamirah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 39 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Zamirah in the US?

Rank in 2025: 3,779th among girls
Babies in 2025: 39 about 1 in 41,000 girls
Five-year trend: Steady up 10% in five years
Same name in a class: under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 39 girls in the US were named Zamirah, making it the 3,779th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,167th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 42 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.

Half of all the girls named Zamirah in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 221 girls in the US were given Zamirah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #994, up from #3,779 for this spelling alone.

Zamira 169
Zamirah 39
Zamyra 13

2002Busiest: 42 in 20172025

Zamirah in the US, year by year

Year	Girls	Rank
2025	39	#3,779
2024	40	#3,758
2023	34	#4,189
2022	37	#3,961
2021	41	#3,677
2020	33	#4,167
2019	37	#3,922
2018	33	#4,236
2017	42	#3,626
2016	30	#4,631
2015	23	#5,651
2014	24	#5,454
2013	21	#6,014
2012	25	#5,396
2011	16	#7,432
2010	19	#6,638
2009	11	#9,971
2008	14	#8,525
2007	19	#6,808
2006	19	#6,590
2005	10	#10,123
2004	12	#8,711
2003	0	–
2002	10	#9,476