Zara
#212 for girls in 2025, 1,432 births
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 1,441 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 20,930since 1896
Zara over time
Rank among girls' names. Zara has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #212 | 1,432 |
| 2024 | #233 | 1,333 |
| 2023 | #236 | 1,285 |
| 2022 | #201 | 1,441 |
| 2021 | #212 | 1,413 |
| 2020 | #217 | 1,335 |
| 2019 | #238 | 1,321 |
| 2018 | #253 | 1,282 |
| 2017 | #282 | 1,157 |
| 2016 | #319 | 1,024 |
| 2015 | #401 | 809 |
| 2014 | #420 | 765 |
| 2013 | #482 | 630 |
| 2012 | #552 | 537 |
| 2011 | #634 | 449 |
| 2010 | #718 | 393 |
| 2009 | #774 | 367 |
| 2008 | #780 | 376 |
| 2007 | #718 | 408 |
| 2006 | #856 | 312 |
| 2005 | #920 | 270 |
| 2004 | #1,229 | 179 |
| 2003 | #1,032 | 222 |
| 2002 | #1,338 | 145 |
| 2001 | #1,348 | 142 |
| 2000 | #1,511 | 121 |
| 1999 | #1,532 | 111 |
| 1998 | #1,751 | 90 |
| 1997 | #2,023 | 70 |
| 1996 | #1,806 | 81 |
| 1995 | #2,101 | 64 |
| 1994 | #1,905 | 74 |
| 1993 | #2,417 | 52 |
| 1992 | #2,576 | 48 |
| 1991 | #2,388 | 53 |
| 1990 | #2,029 | 66 |
| 1989 | #2,338 | 50 |
| 1988 | #2,744 | 38 |
| 1987 | #2,657 | 37 |
| 1986 | #2,195 | 47 |
| 1985 | #2,939 | 31 |
| 1984 | #3,329 | 25 |
| 1983 | #2,272 | 42 |
| 1982 | #3,260 | 26 |
| 1981 | #3,147 | 27 |
| 1980 | #2,866 | 31 |
| 1979 | #2,997 | 28 |
| 1978 | #3,009 | 26 |
| 1977 | #3,911 | 18 |
| 1976 | #3,812 | 17 |
| 1975 | #2,811 | 26 |
| 1974 | #3,695 | 17 |
| 1973 | #3,787 | 16 |
| 1972 | #3,404 | 18 |
| 1971 | #3,943 | 15 |
| 1970 | #3,311 | 19 |
| 1969 | #4,723 | 10 |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 |
| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 |
| 1965 | — | |
| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 |
| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 |
| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 |
| 1956 | #3,321 | 13 |
| 1955 | #4,069 | 9 |
| 1954 | #3,718 | 10 |
| 1953 | #4,226 | 8 |
| 1952 | #4,483 | 7 |
| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 |
| 1949 | #3,393 | 10 |
| 1948 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,448 | 10 |
| 1946 | #2,880 | 12 |
| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 |
| 1944 | #3,687 | 7 |
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 |
| 1942 | #2,537 | 13 |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | #2,572 | 11 |
| 1939 | #3,145 | 8 |
| 1938 | #2,579 | 11 |
| 1937 | #3,800 | 6 |
| 1936 | — | |
| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 |
| 1934 | #3,159 | 8 |
| 1933 | #3,109 | 8 |
| 1932 | #3,274 | 8 |
| 1931 | #4,331 | 5 |
| 1930 | — | |
| 1929 | #3,137 | 9 |
| 1928 | #2,954 | 10 |
| 1927 | #3,561 | 8 |
| 1926 | #3,046 | 10 |
| 1925 | #2,489 | 14 |
| 1924 | #2,809 | 12 |
| 1923 | #3,641 | 8 |
| 1922 | #2,958 | 11 |
| 1921 | #2,509 | 14 |
| 1920 | #2,899 | 11 |
| 1919 | #2,813 | 11 |
| 1918 | #3,244 | 9 |
| 1917 | #2,693 | 11 |
| 1916 | #3,031 | 9 |
| 1915 | #1,622 | 21 |
| 1914 | #2,009 | 12 |
| 1913 | #2,034 | 10 |
| 1912 | #1,719 | 11 |
| 1911 | #1,656 | 9 |
| 1910 | #1,634 | 9 |
| 1909 | — | |
| 1908 | #1,547 | 8 |
| 1907 | — | |
| 1906 | — | |
| 1905 | #1,696 | 6 |
| 1904 | #1,659 | 6 |
| 1903 | — | |
| 1902 | — | |
| 1901 | — | |
| 1900 | #1,319 | 9 |
| 1899 | #1,596 | 5 |
| 1898 | — | |
| 1897 | — | |
| 1896 | #1,583 | 5 |
| 1895 | — | |
| 1894 | — | |
| 1893 | — | |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | — | |
| 1890 | — | |
| 1889 | — | |
| 1888 | — | |
| 1887 | — | |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Zara! It came in at #1,583, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1896–1899, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Zara
- 21 spots since 2024 (#233 → #212)
- 5 spots since 2020 (#217 → #212)
- 189 spots since 2015 (#401 → #212)
- Biggest jump: 309 spots in 2005 (#1,229 → #920)
- Biggest drop: 62 spots in 2008 (#718 → #780)
- Debuted 1896
- Peaked 2022 at #201 (1,441 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 2005–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,122 girls born in 2025 were named Zara (0.09%)
- Its best rank, #201 in 2022, was only 1 in 1,138 (0.09%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.0% of all girls named Zara (8,367) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 10 | #1,583 (1896) | #1,590 |
| 1900s | 29 | #1,319 (1900) | #1,555 |
| 1910s | 112 | #1,622 (1915) | #2,246 |
| 1920s | 107 | #2,489 (1925) | #3,000 |
| 1930s | 59 | #2,579 (1938) | #3,450 |
| 1940s | 76 | #2,537 (1942) | #3,293 |
| 1950s | 67 | #3,321 (1956) | #4,839 |
| 1960s | 59 | #4,533 (1962) | #5,352 |
| 1970s | 200 | #2,811 (1975) | #3,468 |
| 1980s | 354 | #2,195 (1986) | #2,775 |
| 1990s | 709 | #1,532 (1999) | #2,053 |
| 2000s | 2,542 | #718 (2007) | #1,051 |
| 2010s | 8,367 | #238 (2019) | #430 |
| 2020s | 8,239 | #201 (2022) | #219 |
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.
Zara in 1919
Top girls' names in 1919
More about 1919
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1,130,117 girls got a published name in 1919; 1 in 102,738 of them was named Zara, which outranked 49.4% of the 5,559 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,640Vista12
- #2,640Willine12
- #2,640Zell12
- #2,813Zara11
- #2,813Adelyn11
- #2,813Aldena11
- #2,813Alise11
- #3,005Adria10
- #3,005Al10
- #3,005Ala10
Tied with 191 names at #2,813; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.