Zarrah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ZAH-ra
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Zarrah is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Zarrah 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.
Meaning borrowed from Zara. More on Wiktionary.
Is Zarrah a girl's or a boy's name?
Zarrah 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 Zarrah in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2008, with 6 girls.
Zarrah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | #7,346 |
| 2018 | 1 | #7,536 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 1 | #7,664 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 1 | #7,690 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 6 | #3,737 |
| 2010 | 6 | #3,715 |
| 2009 | 6 | #3,603 |
| 2008 | 6 | #3,589 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 4 | #3,768 |
How popular is Zarrah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 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, 7 girls in the US were named Zarrah, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 2007.
Half of all the girls named Zarrah in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,220 girls in the US were given Zarrah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #160, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
Zarrah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,405 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,390 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,001 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
Names like Zarrah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zainab, Safa, Nusaybah, Ayah, Hafsa, Aaliyah, Izzah, Farah, Ruqayyah, Sumayyah, Safaa, Aaminah
Other spellings of Zarrah
Names related to Zarrah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Hamza, Kairo, Liyana
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, “Zarrah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zarrah, updated 20 October 2026.