Zehra

given name · Turkish · Latin script

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

Zehra is a given name, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 29th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Kurdish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Yüzü pek beyaz ve parlak olan kimse.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 305◐
  • CYCyprus1 in 500
  • SYSyria1 in 648

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

≈274K ●

across 11 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
137 ●

1.8M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 305 ◐

Türkiye

Spellings & scripts●

ZehraLatin · Turkish●1.5M records
제라Hangul · Korean●22 records

Locally spelled 제라 in KR South Korea.

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●

recorded in Turkish

Yüzü pek beyaz ve parlak olan kimse.

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Zehra is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#29268,7161.8M rec.1 in 305269KZehra106
SY Syria#4851,39952K rec.——Zehra6
CY Cyprus#544,5525.5K rec.——Zehra17
AF Afghanistan#233,2713.3K rec.——Zehra2
AZ Azerbaijan#2902,192830 rec.—11Zehra12
BE Belgium—1,6411.7K rec.—18Zehra21
US United States—1,4492.7K rec.1 in 230K1.4KZehra137
NL Netherlands—1,2992K rec.1 in 13K1.3KZehra30
FR France—1,2450 rec.1 in 54K1.2K—1
IR Iran—1,2031.2K rec.——Zehra6
GB United Kingdom—964804 rec.—3Zehra59
KG Kyrgyzstan—56055 rec.——Zehra4

Roughly 269K people in Türkiye bear this name (about 1 in 305). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • Turkish1.5M78%
  • Kurdish273K14%
  • Arabic40K2%
  • German19K1%
  • English14K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish1,484,36778%
Kurdish273,33214%
Arabic40,1222%
German18,9081%
English13,6411%

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◐

Zehra is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name43K records spelled Zehra15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Netherlands, Türkiye, United States

    Languages: German, English, Western Frisian

    Also written Z'Ehra, Žehřa, Zëhrä, Zêhrâ, Zéhra

  • Urdu given name24K records spelled Zehra3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, India, United States, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Urdu, Hindi

    Also written Zéhrà

  • Bulgarian given name13K records spelled Zehra33 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Türkiye, Syria, North Macedonia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Russian, Croatian

    Also written Зехра, Zekhra, Zera, Зера, Žera

  • Spanish given name4.7K records spelled Zehra5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, United States, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Z'Ehra, Zéhra

  • Danish given name1.7K records spelled Zehra6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Türkiye, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Zéhra

37 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●

Zehra is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Arabic, beauty

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • In Serbo-Croatian, little

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

0102030401980199020002010202033 · 2013

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Zehra in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1977–2025
Yearrecords
19776
19805
19817
19849
19857
19865
198710
19887
19899
19909
19918
19929
199315
19946
19959
19968
199723
199817
199916
200018
200117
200222
200314
200415
200518
200622
200717
200815
200915
201020
201120
201232
201333
201419
201522
201620
201720
201825
201925
202027
202118
202225
202321
202420
202524

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 45 years between 1977–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Zehra Aylin, b. 1912Zehra Bilir, b. 1913Zehra Ali Yavar Jung, b. 1920Zehra Nigah, b. 1936Tomris İncer, b. 1947Zehra Sayers, b. 1953Zehra Çırak, b. 1960Zehra Doğan, b. 1989Zehra Gülüç, b. 1998Zehra Güneş, b. 1999

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 58 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Zehra
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
TR TürkiyeTÜİK NIP — most used given names2025269K#9
TR TürkiyeTÜİK NIP — newborn names20232.3K#26
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—1.6K#1,895
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.4K#9,540
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—1.3K#1,092
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241.2K#1,516
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—933#2,174
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2024574#290
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—430#2,774
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—416#3,144
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—399#1,346
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020397#55,761

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 447 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Zehra?
We estimate roughly 274 thousand people bear Zehra (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Zehra have the most bearers?
We estimate about 269 thousand people bear Zehra in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled zehra.
Where is Zehra most common?
Zehra is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 305 people carrying it.
How common is Zehra compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Zehra is the 29th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
Is Zehra a male or female name?
Zehra 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 Zehra mean?
Recorded meaning: Yüzü pek beyaz ve parlak olan kimse.
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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, “Zehra” — the 29th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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