Zaira

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Zaira: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #432 in 2017, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#432highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1914
1997	#2152
1998	#3142
1999	#1970
2000	#1831
2001	#2226
2002	#2540
2003	#1996
2004	#2278
2005	#2438
2006	#1748
2007	#5201
2008	#4524
2009	#2326
2010	#2235
2011	#2893
2012	#2338
2013	#5742
2014	#3514
2015	#2705
2016	#2233
2017	#1995
2018	#1586
2019	#1634
2020	#1065
2021	#1007
2022	#910
2023	#754
2024	#736

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

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

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

In 2024: #736 among girls in England and Wales, #790 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1914 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
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Zaira appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 416 births with the name.

Zaira across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Zaira's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1914 (1996)	#736 (2024)	#736 (2024)	29 of 29	416 (1996–2024)	51 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#937 (2011)	#834 (2020)	#885 (2025)	3 of 15	9 (2011–2025)	3 (2011)

Zaira 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 Zaira in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	27	4 of 10	7
2000s	77	10 of 10	8
2010s	111	10 of 10	11
2020sbusiest	201	5 of 10	40

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 40 births a year.

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

Zaira 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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #432 in Northern Ireland in 2017.

Zaira'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	#736	51	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#754	47	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#910	38	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1007	34	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1065	31	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1634	18	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1586	19	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1995	14	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2233	12	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2705	9	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3514	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2338	11	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2893	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2235	11	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2326	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1748	13	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2438	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1996	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2540	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2226	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1831	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1970	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2152	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1914	8	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #432, first reached in 2017.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 51 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 28 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.

Zaine · #781, 29y
Zaineb · #705, 25y
Zairah · #2574, 16y
Zaire · #785, 13y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Cobi · #433, 29y
Arielle · #434, 29y
Daisy-Mae · #439, 29y
Bree · #424, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Abram · #432, 18y
Aleigha · #432, 26y
Amarah · #432, 29y
Beatriz · #432, 29y

Zaira was ranked #432 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2017. 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.

Zaira 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 Zaira without appearing here.

Zaira moved ahead of

Finlay Compare
In 2015 they stood at #5742 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2233 and #5785.
Kristy Compare
In 2008 they stood at #4524 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #2326 and #5556.
Siobhán Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1995 and #1817 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1586 and #4684.
Tyler Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3514 and #3160 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2705 and #5730.

Moved ahead of Zaira

Harper Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1748 and #2137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #5201 and #1573.
Beau Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1831 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #2226 and #1107.
Alma Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1996 and #2727 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #2278 and #1535.
Mila Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1970 and #2189 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1831 and #1313.

Moved the opposite way to Zaira

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaira went from #1914 to #736 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaira went from #1914 to #736 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaira went from #1914 to #736 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaira went from #1914 to #736 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Zaira

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaira went from #1914 to #736 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaira went from #1914 to #736 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaira went from #1914 to #736 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaira went from #1914 to #736 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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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.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #432 in Northern Ireland in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Zaira

Zaira at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Zaira across 2 official records

Zaira by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Zaira across 2 official records

Zaira by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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