Zahrah

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Zahrah: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #732 in 2001, and it stood at #3,695 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#732highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#891
1997	#946
1998	#758
1999	#842
2000	#748
2001	#732
2002	#861
2003	#893
2004	#1072
2005	#769
2006	#890
2007	#793
2008	#1093
2009	#1171
2010	#1429
2011	#1729
2012	#1720
2013	#1537
2014	#2058
2015	#1961
2016	#1834
2017	#2090
2018	#2499
2019	#5591
2020	#2300
2021	#2073
2022	#2178
2023	#1959
2024	#3695

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.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #891 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: #732 among girls in England and Wales, in 2001 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3695 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Zahrah 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 Zahrah 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
2000sbusiest	306	10 of 10	31
2010s	143	10 of 10	14
2020s	56	5 of 10	11

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 31 births a year.

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

Zahrah appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #732 in England and Wales in 2001.

Zahrah'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	#3695	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1959	14	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2178	12	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2073	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2300	11	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2090	13	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1834	16	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1961	14	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1537	20	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1720	17	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1729	16	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1429	21	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1171	26	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1093	27	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#793	41	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#890	33	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#769	37	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1072	22	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#893	28	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#861	27	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#732	34	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#748	31	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#842	26	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#758	30	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#946	22	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#891	24	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #732, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 41 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

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.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#3,695position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
41births registered in its largest year, 200725 to 49 births →

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.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Kaan · #731, 29y
Kwame · #733, 29y
Chace · #734, 24y
Anam · #735, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Kaan · #731, 29y
Kwame · #733, 29y
Alaa · #734, 29y
Calan · #730, 23y

Zahrah was ranked #732 in England and Wales · Girls in 2001. 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.

Zahrah 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 Zahrah without appearing here.

Zahrah moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2020 they stood at #5591 and #5591 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2073 and #5581.
Tyler Compare
In 2020 they stood at #5591 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2073 and #5581.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #5591 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2300 and #5493.
Geraldine Compare
In 2019 they stood at #5591 and #5591 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2300 and #5493.

Moved ahead of Zahrah

Eabha Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2499 and #2674 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #5591 and #2458.
Marilyn Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1959 and #2063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #1541.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1959 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #1743.
Jude Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1959 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #1894.

Moved the opposite way to Zahrah

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zahrah went from #891 to #3695 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zahrah went from #891 to #3695 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zahrah went from #891 to #3695 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zahrah went from #891 to #3695 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Zahrah

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zahrah went from #891 to #3695 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zahrah went from #891 to #3695 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zahrah went from #891 to #3695 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zahrah went from #891 to #3695 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

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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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #732 in England and Wales in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Zahrah

Zahrah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Zahrah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Zahrah appears in

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Zahrah at a glance

Zahrah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Zahrah

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Zahrah moved ahead of

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