Zahira
Zahira was given to 41 girls in 2025, #3,708 among girls’ names; 1,226 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,210 Americans named Zahira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zahira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zahira?
#3,708 among girls’ names, 2025
Zahira rose from #4,141 in 2015 to #3,708 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 20.2 to 25.5 per million.
69 babies in 2008, the peak
Zahira peaked in 2008, when 69 girls were given it, #2,689 among girls’ names. The 41 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,708 | 25.5 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,961 | 23.5 |
| 2023 | 37 | #4,041 | 23.1 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,647 | 26.2 |
| 2021 | 47 | #3,388 | 28.6 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,642 | 17.9 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,337 | 19.7 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,444 | 14.1 |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,693 | 24.3 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,154 | 20.3 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #4,141 | 20.2 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,097 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,997 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,291 | 19.9 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,069 | 21.0 |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,157 | 29.8 |
| 2009 | 54 | #3,158 | 29.4 |
| 2008 | 69 | #2,689 | 36.5 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,166 | 28.6 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,814 | 33.1 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,110 | 18.9 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,812 | 20.7 |
| 2003 | 34 | #4,029 | 18.6 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,489 | 15.6 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,560 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,563 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,416 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,710 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,833 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,552 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 11 | #8,070 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,658 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,423 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,460 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,498 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,686 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,155 | 18.4 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,867 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,740 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,553 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,406 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,502 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,402 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #12,151 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,609 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zahira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zahira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zahira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zahira, and how old are they?
1,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,226 Americans ever recorded as Zahira. The median Zahira alive today is 17 years old; half are between 9 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,401 people named Zahira (1,386 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 989 born in the U.S. The Census count is 42% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 146 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 579 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 478 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Zahira born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,625 | 0.8× |
Where Zahira is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zahira is most over-represented in California: since 1975 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Zahira with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 55,087 babies since 1880, Zahira is the eighth most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 2,828 babies (1.4%), the seventh most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zahira
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Zahira and names like it
- Compare Zahira and ZaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sZahira peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zahira since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Zahira.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zahira alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.