Zara

girls’ nameAt its peak · modern nameCompare

Zara is ranked 234th among girls in 2024 (1,327 births). Its best rank was 201st, in 2022.

Rank in 2024: #234up 2 from 2023
Births in 2024: 1,3270.08% of girls
Peak year: 20221,438 births
Best rank: #201in 2022
Since 1896: 19,484people given the name

Babies named Zara, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

19,484 girls have been named Zara in the United States since 1896, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 1,438 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2022, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2017, and the 2010s alone account for 43%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Zara
1890s	10
1900s	29
1910s	112
1920s	107
1930s	59
1940s	76
1950s	67
1960s	59
1970s	200
1980s	355
1990s	709
2000s	2,542
2010s	8,364
2020s	6,795

In 2022, its biggest year

Zara was the 201st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2022 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Sophia. See all of 2022.

Names that rose and fell with Zara

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.