Zara

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Zara is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 25th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Arabic zhara, meaning “blooming flower”.

rarermore common
  • SASaudi Arabia1 in 29◐
  • KWKuwait1 in 64
  • ILIsrael1 in 118

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.7M ●

across 11 countries

#132 ●

of 16M given names

9 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
592 ●

12M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 147 ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

SarahLatin · English●8.1M records
שרהHebrew · Hebrew●681K records
ЗараCyrillic · Russian●28K records
세라Hangul · Korean●8.8K records
ᲡარაGeorgian · Georgian●2.4K records
ሳራEthiopic · Amharic●802 records
ซาร่าThai · Thai●544 records
ՍառաArmenian · Armenian●5 records
সারাহBengali · Bangla●1 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sara in SA Saudi Arabia, BR Brazil, IT Italy and 11 more, Sarah in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 8 more, שרה in IL Israel, PL Poland and Saera in FR France.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

From Arabic zhara, meaning “blooming flower”.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Zara is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#25994,721785K rec.—666Sarah317
US United States#44873,1998.4M rec.1 in 381873KSarah592
SA Saudi Arabia#6772,24711K rec.——Sara174
AU Australia#18674,679447K rec.—393Sarah320
IL Israel#11574,371591K rec.—589שרה116
BR Brazil#895304,917△1.8K rec.1 in 694305KSara9
CA Canada#28286,986203K rec.—48Sarah267
DE Germany#90274,417250K rec.—2Sarah291
IT Italy#25203,81470K rec.—43Sara198
EG Egypt#10188,77259K rec.—listedSara165
ES Spain—179,954△60K rec.1 in 278180KSara181
FR France—174,005△4.6K rec.1 in 390174KSaera18

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English91K42%
  • Spanish29K13%
  • Portuguese17K8%
  • French9.4K4%
  • Croatian5.4K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English91,27742%
Spanish28,79813%
Portuguese16,9888%
French9,3734%
Croatian5,3983%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Zara is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name73K records spelled Zara70 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Peru, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, English

    Also written Zarra, Zarae, Zará, Zarà, Zärra

  • French given name15K records spelled Zara16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Zarra, Zarà, Zāra, Zära, Zàra

  • Indonesian given name8.4K records spelled Zara3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, Nigeria, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Zara

  • Turkish given name6.6K records spelled Zara9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Azerbaijan, United States, Russia

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen

    Also written Зара, Zârã, Zàrà, Zärä, Zarã

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name3.4K records spelled Zara12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, United States

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Zarra, Zãra, Zärã

  • Polish given name1.9K records spelled Zara6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands

    Also written Zarra, Żara, Zarã, Zäŗà, Zārà

65 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Zara is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Arabic: blossom or flower; Hebrew: the bright dawn; see Sarah.

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In Italian, oriundo da cidade dálmata de Zara (Zadar)

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • agricultor; farmer

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In Romanian, subst. zara ; cf. si Zara fiul lui Simeon (Biblie, Numeri 26,13). 1. Zara pren. (1ntr-un pomelnic din Bucuresti) ; fam., olt. ; Zara, ard., 1726 (Pas) ; - Ignat (Sd XI 77). 2. Cf. Zarce, olt. (16 B VI 360). Zaranda v. Sm ar a gd 3. Zarce v. Zara 2. Zarna v. Zfrna 3.

    as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc

  • In English, prov, city, Spain; city, Mexico

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05001K1.5K1900195020001.4K · 2022

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Zara in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1896–2025
Yearrecords
18965
18995
19009
19046
19056
19088
19109
19119
191211
191310
191412
191521
19169
191711
19189
191911
192011
192114
192211
19238
192412
192514
192610
19278
192810
19299
19315
19328
19338
19348
19355
19376
193811
19398
194011
194213
19437
19447
19456
194612
194710
194910
19505
19527
19538
195410
19559
195613
19575
19585
19595
19607
19618
19629
19636
19648
19666
19675
196910
197019
197115
197218
197316
197417
197526
197617
197718
197826
197928
198031
198127
198226
198342
198425
198531
198647
198737
198838
198950
199066
199153
199248
199352
199474
199564
199681
199770
199890
1999111
2000121
2001142
2002145
2003222
2004179
2005270
2006312
2007408
2008376
2009367
2010393
2011449
2012537
2013630
2014765
2015809
20161,024
20171,157
20181,282
20191,321
20201,335
20211,413
20221,441
20231,285
20241,333
20251,432

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 115 years between 1896–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

120014001600180020002200Zara Yaqob, b. 1399Zara Cully, b. 1892Zara Dolukhanova, b. 1918Zara Nelsova, b. 1918Zara Whites, b. 1968Zara Tindall, b. 1981Zara Taylor, b. 1983Zara Phythian, b. 1984Pfeiffer Georgi, b. 2000Zara Rutherford, b. 2002

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 126 sources across 62 countries.

Official registers attesting Zara
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202013K#2,104
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.7K#1,190
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20251.4K—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—1.4K#1,751
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.3K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.3K#6,839
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.3K#1,420
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20211.3K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20241.1K#861
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—1K#389
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201K—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—989#2,870

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,331 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Zara?
We estimate roughly 1.7 million people bear Zara (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Zara have the most bearers?
Zara is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled sarah.
How common is Zara compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Zara is the 25th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Zara a male or female name?
Zara is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Zara mean?
Recorded meaning: From Arabic zhara, meaning “blooming flower”.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zara” — the 25th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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