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Zaira

#1,081 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Zaïre

Zaira has been given to 4,986 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #1,081 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 224 recorded.

Babies named Zaira, 2025

1 in 14,800

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zaira: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Zaïre

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zaira means

Zaira is a form of Zaïre.

Origin, language, and formation

Zaira is used in Italian and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zaïre.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Zaira is pronounced /ˈθaiɾa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,986 girls were recorded with the name Zaira between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 224 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,081 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,577 in 2020 to #1,081 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,574 in 2015 to #1,081 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 Zaira?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,800
224 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 7,170
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,081
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,260 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zaira 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,260 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zaira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zairas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zaira was born before 2010 — so the typical Zaira is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,986
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.9% of all recorded uses (1,393).

Is Zaira 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
+149
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+496
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+493
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.60×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (224)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,081
2025

Spellings of Zaira

Zaira is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 34.1% against Zaira's 0.21%.

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 Zaira is used

Across 2016–2025, Zaira was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 4,762 girls, against 1 in 8,837 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

121 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 4,762
  2. 2Texas1 in 5,556
  3. 3Illinois1 in 7,143
  4. 4New York1 in 7,692
  5. 5Nevada1 in 9,091
  6. 6Florida1 in 10,000
  7. 7Maryland1 in 10,000
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 11,111

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.

Zaira around the world

Where Zaira 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
    #747
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2024–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2017–2017
    #432
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    2011–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    1921–2025
    #2,490
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #1,349
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Zaira

People whose public names include Zaira, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Zaira in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Zaira. Linked forms have their own page here.

ZaraSairaZaïreZaffira

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Zaira by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,081
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 496
Best rank ever
#1,081
2025
Peak year
2025
224 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,986
Count in 2025
224

Names similar to Zaira

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

ZaidaZainaZainabZaireShiraMairaSairaKairaAkiraZailaMoiraElmiraZaiyaAdiraZaileyMeiraYaniraDairaSamiraClairaIndiraYahairaZaiaYajaira

Names with a curve like Zaira

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Zaira, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KarolinaKaliaKalinaKaleaYaneliNoelaniFaigyChiaraNourAndieLiannaVivianna

Sibling names for Zaira

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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