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Zira

#6,834 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and deeper origin uncertain

Zira has been given to 186 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #6,834 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Zira, 2025

1 in 195,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zira: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and deeper origin uncertain

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zira means

Zira is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Zira is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 186 girls were recorded with the name Zira between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2023; its best national rank was #5,744 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #15,060 in 2020 to #6,834 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #14,468 in 2015 to #6,834 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 Zira?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,834
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zira 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ziras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zira was born before 2020 — so the typical Zira is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
51.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
186
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 51.1% of all recorded uses (95).

Is Zira 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
+1,603
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+8,226
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+7,634
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
77.3%
Peak was 2023 (22)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,744
2023

Spellings of Zira

Zira is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 18.1% against Zira's <0.01%.

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.

Zira around the world

Where Zira 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
    2022–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • France
    2016–2025
    #6,055
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1983–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Zira by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,834
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 8,226
Best rank ever
#5,744
2023
Peak year
2023
22 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
186
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Zira

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

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Sibling names for Zira

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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