Zohal
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- zoh-HAL
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Zohal is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “Saturn (the planet)”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies) and 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Zohal mean?
Arabic: Afghan and Persian form of Zuhal
“Saturn (the planet)”
Zuhal is the Arabic name of the planet Saturn.
Is Zohal a girl's or a boy's name?
Zohal is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK and 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zohal in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,101st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 375% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Zohal, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 10 girls.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years.
Half of all the girls named Zohal in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Zohal in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 7 | #3,381 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 10 | #2,658 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 7 | #3,321 |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 7 | #3,471 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 10 | #2,478 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 8 | #2,790 |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,724 |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 4 | #3,399 |
How popular is Zohal in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 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, 9 girls in the US were named Zohal, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2023, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 1992.
Half of all the girls named Zohal in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zohal in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,438 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,050 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,562 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,435 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,471 |
Names like Zohal
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zainab, Safa, Hafsa, Ayah, Hiba, Aaliyah, Rahma, Safaa, Zimal, Nusaybah, Sumayyah, Ruqayyah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
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, “Zohal: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zohal, updated 20 October 2026.