Zemirah
#3,573 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zemirah has been given to 728 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #3,573 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 65 recorded.
Babies named Zemirah, 2025
1 in 77,100
Zemirah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Zemirah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 77,100
- 43 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 37,400
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,573
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 53,441 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zemirah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zemirah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zemirahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zemirah was born before 2017 — so the typical Zemirah is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 49.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 99.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 728
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 49.5% of all recorded uses (360).
Is Zemirah 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
- −881
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +687
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +656
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.23×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 66.2%
- Peak was 2024 (65)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.9% average annual change
Spellings of Zemirah
Zemirah is not the most common spelling — Amirah is, with 49.3% against Zemirah's 3.3%.
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 Zemirah is used
Across 1910–2025, Zemirah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 675,821 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4North Carolina1 in —
- 5New York1 in —
- 6Texas1 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. Zemirah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Zemirah around the world
Where Zemirah 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 & Wales2007–2025#2,605in 2025
- Canada2016–2024#2,463in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Zemirah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zemirah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zemirah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.