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Zaha

#5,911 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Zaha has been given to 122 babies in the U.S. since 2015. In 2025 it ranked #5,911 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Zaha, 2025

1 in 158,000

Zaha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zaha: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Arabic

What Zaha means

Zaha is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Zaha is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 122 girls were recorded with the name Zaha between 2015 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 21 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,911 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,200 in 2020 to #5,911 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #16,352 in 2015 to #5,911 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Zaha?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 76,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,911
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zaha sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zaha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zahas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zaha was born before 2022 — so the typical Zaha is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
77.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
122
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 77.0% of all recorded uses (94).

Is Zaha rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+472
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,289
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+10,441
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (21)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,911
2025

Spellings of Zaha

Zaha is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 18.0% against Zaha's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Zaha around the world

Where Zaha ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2011–2025
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2024–2024
    #736
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2021–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Zaha by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,911
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,289
Best rank ever
#5,911
2025
Peak year
2025
21 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
122
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Zaha

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Zaha

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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