Zahraa

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Zahraa: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Zahraa: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #583 in 2011, and it stood at #2,253 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#583highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#703
1997	#1074
1998	#955
1999	#780
2000	#804
2001	#898
2002	#861
2003	#1176
2004	#1106
2005	#851
2006	#796
2007	#755
2008	#779
2009	#717
2010	#790
2011	#583
2012	#844
2013	#733
2014	#681
2015	#860
2016	#837
2017	#1105
2018	#1013
2019	#1218
2020	#1313
2021	#2341
2022	#2888
2023	#2689
2024	#2253

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

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What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2018: #896 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1013 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #703 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #583 among girls in England and Wales, in 2011 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2253 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Zahraa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Zahraa in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	102	4 of 10	26
2000s	330	10 of 10	33
2010sbusiest	453	10 of 10	45
2020s	64	5 of 10	13

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 45 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Zahraa appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #583 in England and Wales in 2011.

Zahraa's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2253	12	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2689	9	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2888	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1313	24	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1218	27	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1013	35	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1105	31	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#837	45	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#860	43	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#681	58	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#733	54	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#844	45	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#583	69	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#790	46	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#717	51	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#779	44	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#755	44	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#796	38	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#851	33	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1106	21	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1176	19	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#861	27	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#898	25	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#804	28	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#780	29	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#955	22	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1074	18	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#703	33	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #583, first reached in 2011.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 69 births, registered in England and Wales in 2011.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2018, and 22 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Zahira · #1958, 27y
Zahra · #94, 75y
Zahrah · #732, 29y
Zahran · #2320, 11y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Maliha · #583, 29y
Shayla · #583, 29y
Ansh · #582, 24y
Arin · #582, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Amrit · #583, 29y
Cherry · #583, 29y
Maliha · #583, 29y
Noura · #583, 27y

Zahraa was ranked #583 in England and Wales · Girls in 2011. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Zahraa and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Zahraa without appearing here.

Zahraa moved ahead of

Katrina Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2689 and #2504 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2253 and #4192.
Kim Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2689 and #2689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2253 and #4192.
Sinead Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2689 and #1705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2253 and #3695.
Jordan Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2888 and #2888 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2689 and #4056.

Moved ahead of Zahraa

Clodagh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1313 and #1397 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2341 and #1195.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1313 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2341 and #1286.
Elaine Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1313 and #1687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2341 and #1454.
Dylan Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2888 and #3148 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2689 and #1959.

Moved the opposite way to Zahraa

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zahraa went from #703 to #2253 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zahraa went from #703 to #2253 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zahraa went from #703 to #2253 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zahraa went from #703 to #2253 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Zahraa

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zahraa went from #703 to #2253 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zahraa went from #703 to #2253 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zahraa went from #703 to #2253 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zahraa went from #703 to #2253 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #583 in England and Wales in 2011. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Zahraa

Zahraa at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Zahraa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Zahraa at a glance

Zahraa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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