Zahara — #1206 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Zahara

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,432 babies named Zahara between 1986 and 2024, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Zahara currently holds the #1206 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 202 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Zahara performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,538 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Zahara shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 345 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Zahara in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Zahara in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,432 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.