Zohara
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- zo-HAR-a
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #8,858 for girls
Zohara is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “radiance, brightness”. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).
What does Zohara mean?
Hebrew: feminine form of Zohar
“radiance, brightness”
Zohar, 'radiance', is also the title of the central text of Jewish mysticism.
Is Zohara a girl's or a boy's name?
Zohara is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zohara in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,858among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11about 1 in 150,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Zohara, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 2006.
Half of all the girls named Zohara in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zohara in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,858 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
Names like Zohara
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zamira Zahara Zhamira Zaniyah Zaliyah Zayla Safa Zaya Hadassa Hadassah Amoura Zahira
Names related to Zohara
More Hebrew names
Noah Isabella Elijah James Jack Mia Ava Jude Ezra Benjamin Isaac Jacob Ethan Daniel Samuel Elias
Sources
Figures from 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, “Zohara: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zohara, updated 20 October 2026.