Zera
#7,481 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zera has been given to 703 babies in the U.S. since 1890. In 2025 it ranked #7,481 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 23 recorded.
Babies named Zera, 2025
1 in 221,000
Zera 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Zera?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 221,000
- 15 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 107,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,481
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 153,194 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zera 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zera. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zeras were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zera was born before 1925 — so the typical Zera is around 100 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 18.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 28.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 248
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 18.6% of all recorded uses (129).
Is Zera 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
- +1,451
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,053
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +5,505
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.88×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 65.2%
- Peak was 1921 (23)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.3% average annual change
Spellings of Zera
Zera is not the most common spelling — Debra is, with 13.9% against Zera's 0.02%.
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 Zera is used
Across 1910–2025, Zera was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 610,898 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Zera has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Zera around the world
Where Zera 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 & Wales2021–2025#4,201in 2025
- South Australia1986–1990#691in 1990
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Zera by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Zera
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zera
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.