Zemira
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- zeh-MEER-uh
- Origin
- Hebrew
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #3,388 for girls
Zemira is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “song, melody”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies) and 3,388th for girls in the US (45 babies).
What does Zemira mean?
Hebrew: from Hebrew zemirah
“song, melody”
From Hebrew zemirah, 'song'; in the Bible Zemirah is a man's name, borne by a son of Becher.
Is Zemira a girl's or a boy's name?
Zemira is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK and 45 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zemira in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,276th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 67% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Zemira, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2017, with 9 girls.
In 2025, 15 girls in the UK were given Zemira or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,686, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.
- Zemirah 10
- Zemira 5
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Zemira in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 7 | #3,388 |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 9 | #2,864 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 1 | #7,592 |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
How popular is Zemira in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,388th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 45 about 1 in 36,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 27% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 45 girls in the US were named Zemira, making it the 3,388th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,498th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 99 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.
Half of all the girls named Zemira in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 88 girls in the US were given Zemira or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,855, up from #3,388 for this spelling alone.
- Zemira 45
- Zemirah 43
Zemira in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #3,388 |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,661 |
| 2023 | 54 | #3,047 |
| 2022 | 66 | #2,639 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,933 |
| 2020 | 43 | #3,498 |
| 2019 | 82 | #2,231 |
| 2018 | 99 | #1,978 |
| 2017 | 80 | #2,302 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,523 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,651 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,846 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,916 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,599 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,725 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,675 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,828 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
Names like Zemira
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Abeeha, Hafsa, Ayra, Nusaybah, Zainab, Hawa, Amira, Hiba, Rahma, Rumaysa, Khadija
Other spellings of Zemira
Names related to Zemira
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, “Zemira: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zemira, updated 20 October 2026.