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Zehra

#5,402 in 2025Girls' name

Flower

Zehra has been given to 729 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #5,402 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Zehra, 2025

1 in 138,000

Zehra over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zehra: meaning, origin, and history

Flower

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zehra means

Zehra means “flower”, associated with زهرة.

Origin, language, and formation

Zehra is used in Serbo-Croatian and Turkish.

Zehra comes through Arabic زهرة.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Zehra is pronounced /zehˈɾaː/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 729 girls were recorded with the name Zehra between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2013; its best national rank was #4,417 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,871 in 2020 to #5,402 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,029 in 2015 to #5,402 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 Zehra?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 67,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,402
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zehra 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zehra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zehras were born

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

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
729
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.4% of all recorded uses (236).

Is Zehra 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
+755
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−531
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+627
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
72.7%
Peak was 2013 (33)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,417
2013

Spellings of Zehra

Zehra is not the most common spelling — Debra is, with 56.3% against Zehra's 0.07%.

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 Zehra is used

Across 1910–2025, Zehra was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 729,642 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Zehra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zehra around the world

Where Zehra 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
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2017–2017
    #808
    in 2017
  • France
    1974–2025
    #2,136
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2023
    #2,049
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1976–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Zehra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,402
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 531
Best rank ever
#4,417
2013
Peak year
2013
33 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
729
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Zehra

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

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Sibling names for Zehra

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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