Zehra
#5,238 for girls in 2025, 24 births
- Peak · girls
- 2013 · 33 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 729since 1977
Zehra over time
Rank among girls' names. Zehra has never cracked the top 4,000 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 | #5,238 | 24 |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 |
| 2023 | #5,752 | 21 |
| 2022 | #5,172 | 25 |
| 2021 | #6,414 | 18 |
| 2020 | #4,757 | 27 |
| 2019 | #5,163 | 25 |
| 2018 | #5,152 | 25 |
| 2017 | #6,044 | 20 |
| 2016 | #6,186 | 20 |
| 2015 | #5,833 | 22 |
| 2014 | #6,451 | 19 |
| 2013 | #4,336 | 33 |
| 2012 | #4,486 | 32 |
| 2011 | #6,335 | 20 |
| 2010 | #6,382 | 20 |
| 2009 | #8,058 | 15 |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 |
| 2007 | #7,394 | 17 |
| 2006 | #5,906 | 22 |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 |
| 2002 | #5,254 | 22 |
| 2001 | #6,322 | 17 |
| 2000 | #5,937 | 18 |
| 1999 | #6,191 | 16 |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 |
| 1997 | #4,508 | 23 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 |
| 1993 | #5,955 | 15 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 |
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| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 |
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| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Zehra! It came in at #8,444, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1978–1980, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Zehra is popular in 2006
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#2,195 · 1 in 19,305
Best ever in a state: #1,022 in New Jersey, 2018.
Show every state
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| New York | #2,195 | 5 | 1 in 19,305 |
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See more about Zehra
- 724 spots since 2024 (#5,962 → #5,238)
- 481 spots since 2020 (#4,757 → #5,238)
- 595 spots since 2015 (#5,833 → #5,238)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 2013 at #4,336 (33 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 53,174 girls born in 2013 were named Zehra (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 66,969 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 32.4% of all girls named Zehra (236) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 6 | #8,444 (1977) | #8,444 |
| 1980s | 59 | #6,788 (1987) | #8,579 |
| 1990s | 120 | #4,508 (1997) | #7,915 |
| 2000s | 173 | #5,254 (2002) | #6,848 |
| 2010s | 236 | #4,336 (2013) | #5,637 |
| 2020s | 135 | #4,757 (2020) | #5,549 |
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.
Zehra in 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
More about 2006
girls
1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 86,419 of them was named Zehra, which outranked 70.6% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,709Zyaire23
- #5,709Zyanna23
- #5,709Zykira23
- #5,906Zehra22
- #5,906Aaliyha22
- #5,906Abbygayle22
- #5,906Adaly22
- #6,125Aadya21
- #6,125Abagayle21
- #6,125Abi21
Tied with 218 names at #5,906; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.