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Zarra

Girl · ZAH-ra · Arabic

Zarra is a girls' name of Arabic origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Zarra mean?

Arabic: spelling of Zara; probably from Zahra

A captive queen named Zara appears in Congreve's 1697 play The Mourning Bride; Zara Tindall, Princess Anne's daughter, is a well-known bearer.

Say it
ZAH-ra

Meaning borrowed from Zara. More on Wiktionary.

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

Zarra is a girls' name.

How popular is Zarra in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2020, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 2008.

Half of all the girls named Zarra in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

2008Busiest: 14 in 20202024
Zarra in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20246#13,472
202310#9,611
20229#10,377
20219#10,287
202014#7,554
201913#8,134
201811#9,146
201712#8,772
20160–
201512#8,926
20149#10,949
20130–
20126#14,956
20110–
20100–
20096#15,236
20086#15,399

Names like Zarra

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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