Zhara
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ZAH-rah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #5,237 for girls
Zhara is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “flower; radiant”. In 2025 it ranked 5,237th for girls in the US (24 babies).
What does Zhara mean?
Arabic: variant of Zahra
“flower; radiant”
A spelling of Zahra; al-Zahra, 'the radiant one', is a title of Fatimah, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad.
Is Zhara a girl's or a boy's name?
Zhara is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 24 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zhara in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2006, with 6 girls.
Half of all the girls named Zhara in the UK since 1996 were born between 2004 and 2010, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zhara in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 1 | #7,491 |
| 2020 | 1 | #7,326 |
| 2019 | 1 | #7,346 |
| 2018 | 1 | #7,536 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 1 | #7,717 |
| 2010 | 6 | #3,715 |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 6 | #3,589 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 6 | #3,280 |
| 2005 | 5 | #3,543 |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 4 | #3,556 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 4 | #3,399 |
| 1999 | 4 | #3,374 |
| 1998 | 1 | #5,152 |
How popular is Zhara in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,237among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 24about 1 in 67,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 3% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 24 girls in the US were named Zhara, making it the 5,237th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,663rd. Its busiest year was 2022, with 31 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.
Half of all the girls named Zhara in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zhara in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,237 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,796 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,996 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,470 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,960 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,663 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,608 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,560 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,283 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,898 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 12 | #8,961 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,610 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,675 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,671 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
Names like Zhara
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Hafsa Zainab Hiba Rahma Zoha Ayra Yusra Iqra Huda Amira Abeeha
Names related to Zhara
Zara Zahra Zarah Zaira Zaria Zehra Zohra Zahrah Zayra Zahira Zarya
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Aaliyah Amir 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, “Zhara: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zhara, updated 20 October 2026.