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Zahira

#3,708 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Zahir

Zahira has been given to 1,226 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #3,708 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 69 recorded.

Babies named Zahira, 2025

1 in 80,900

Zahira over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zahira: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Zahir

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zahira means

Zahira is a feminine form of Zahir.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Zahira → Zahir → ظَاهِر. The family’s meaning is “face”, recorded in Arabic with the source elements ظاهر.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zahir.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,226 girls were recorded with the name Zahira between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 69 in 2008; its best national rank was #2,689 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,642 in 2020 to #3,708 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,141 in 2015 to #3,708 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 Zahira?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 80,900
41 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 39,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,708
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
56,047 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zahira 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 56,047 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zahira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zahiras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zahira was born before 2009 — so the typical Zahira is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,226
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Choose a decade

2000s — 33.5% of all recorded uses (411).

Is Zahira 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
+253
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+934
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+433
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
59.4%
Peak was 2008 (69)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,689
2008

Spellings of Zahira

Zahira is not the most common spelling — Amira is, with 12.1% against Zahira's 0.58%.

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.

Where Zahira is used

Across 1910–2025, Zahira was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 144,709 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Zahira has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zahira around the world

Where Zahira 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
    1996–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • France
    1963–2025
    #2,060
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2023
    #2,973
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Zahira by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,708
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 934
Best rank ever
#2,689
2008
Peak year
2008
69 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,226
Count in 2025
41

Names similar to Zahira

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

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Sibling names for Zahira

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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