Zara Girl
How popular is Zara?
#212 girl name in 2025
1,432 baby girls were named Zara in the US in 2025, making it the 212th most popular girl name.
Zara popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #212 for girls (▲ 21 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,432 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+77% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #401 in 2015, #217 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2022 (1,441 girls) |
| Highest rank | #201 in 2022 |
| First recorded | 1896 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Zara counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Zara family of names ranked #153 for girls in 2025 (#166 the year before), with 2,187 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Zara | 1,432 | 65% |
| Zahra | 562 | 26% |
| Zarah | 151 | 7% |
| Zarai | 19 | 1% |
| Zahrah | 16 | 1% |
| Zarrah | 7 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Zara is most popular
Babies named Zara per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- District of Columbia: 3.0 per 1,000 (35 girls)
- Connecticut: 1.8 per 1,000 (105 girls)
- Maryland: 1.6 per 1,000 (171 girls)
- Delaware: 1.6 per 1,000 (18 girls)
- New Jersey: 1.6 per 1,000 (285 girls)
Zara by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 10 | #1,582 |
| 1900s | 29 | #1,318 |
| 1910s | 112 | #1,622 |
| 1920s | 107 | #2,488 |
| 1930s | 59 | #2,578 |
| 1940s | 76 | #2,536 |
| 1950s | 67 | #3,320 |
| 1960s | 59 | #4,532 |
| 1970s | 200 | #2,811 |
| 1980s | 354 | #2,194 |
| 1990s | 709 | #1,530 |
| 2000s | 2,542 | #718 |
| 2010s | 8,367 | #238 |
| 2020s | 8,239 | #201 |
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Questions
- Is Zara a boy or girl name?
- Zara is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Zara were girls.
- How popular is the name Zara?
- 1,432 baby girls were named Zara in the US in 2025, making it the 212th most popular girl name.
- When was Zara most popular?
- Zara peaked in 2022, when 1,441 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #201 in 2022.
- How many people are named Zara?
- 20,930 babies have been named Zara in the US since 1880. We estimate about 20,468 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 8.
- Where is Zara most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Zara was most common in District of Columbia, at 3.0 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.