Zarah

Where Zarah comes from

The dictionaries list Zarah as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Latin
  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1968
    First appearance
    #7,016 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2022
    Peak, #1,216
    199 babies named Zarah — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
  • A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], variant of Sarah.
  • A female given name from Arabic, variant of Zara.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.