Zahara
#1,285 for girls in 2025, 174 births
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 202 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,609since 1986
Zahara over time
Rank among girls' names. Zahara has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,285 | 174 |
| 2024 | #1,202 | 197 |
| 2023 | #1,269 | 181 |
| 2022 | #1,190 | 202 |
| 2021 | #1,197 | 202 |
| 2020 | #1,349 | 163 |
| 2019 | #1,366 | 165 |
| 2018 | #1,461 | 150 |
| 2017 | #1,422 | 160 |
| 2016 | #1,403 | 166 |
| 2015 | #1,416 | 163 |
| 2014 | #1,590 | 135 |
| 2013 | #1,570 | 137 |
| 2012 | #1,432 | 159 |
| 2011 | #1,480 | 151 |
| 2010 | #1,481 | 152 |
| 2009 | #1,528 | 148 |
| 2008 | #1,468 | 160 |
| 2007 | #1,655 | 134 |
| 2006 | #1,342 | 173 |
| 2005 | #2,239 | 81 |
| 2004 | #5,208 | 24 |
| 2003 | #4,220 | 31 |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 |
| 2001 | #4,834 | 24 |
| 2000 | #6,208 | 17 |
| 1999 | #8,223 | 11 |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 |
| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 |
| 1995 | #5,677 | 16 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Zahara! It came in at #10,912, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1986–1987, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Zahara is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#232 · 1 in 639
- Ohio#787 · 1 in 4,689
- Michigan#799 · 1 in 4,574
- Florida#804 · 1 in 4,684
- Maryland#870 · 1 in 4,819
Best ever in a state: #119 in District of Columbia, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #232 | 5 | 1 in 639 |
| Ohio | #787 | 11 | 1 in 4,689 |
| Michigan | #799 | 9 | 1 in 4,574 |
| Florida | #804 | 17 | 1 in 4,684 |
| Maryland | #870 | 5 | 1 in 4,819 |
| New York | #928 | 17 | 1 in 5,428 |
| Arizona | #1,108 | 5 | 1 in 6,195 |
| New Jersey | #1,170 | 5 | 1 in 7,303 |
| Illinois | #1,177 | 8 | 1 in 7,345 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,225 | 6 | 1 in 8,792 |
| California | #1,391 | 20 | 1 in 10,454 |
| Texas | #2,294 | 8 | 1 in 19,789 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Zahara
- 83 spots since 2024 (#1,202 → #1,285)
- 64 spots since 2020 (#1,349 → #1,285)
- 131 spots since 2015 (#1,416 → #1,285)
- Debuted 1986
- Peaked 2022 at #1,190 (202 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,119 girls born in 2022 were named Zahara (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,237 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 42.6% of all girls named Zahara (1,538) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 30 | #7,111 (1988) | #8,971 |
| 1990s | 114 | #5,677 (1995) | #7,911 |
| 2000s | 808 | #1,342 (2006) | #3,540 |
| 2010s | 1,538 | #1,366 (2019) | #1,462 |
| 2020s | 1,119 | #1,190 (2022) | #1,249 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Zahara in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
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1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 11,076 of them was named Zahara, which outranked 92.7% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,425Rileigh160
- #1,425Yaneli160
- #1,425Ziva160
- #1,432Zahara159
- #1,432Addelyn159
- #1,432Andi159
- #1,432Aubry159
- #1,445Aila158
- #1,445Ariyanna158
- #1,445Kinleigh158
Tied with 12 names at #1,432; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.