girls:
3.2k births since 1986
#3048 (47th percentile)
overall:
3.2k births since 1986
#4793 (38th percentile)
The name Zahara is the #4,793 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,235 recorded births since 1986. This represents the 38.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 38.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,048 (46.7% percentile) for all time with 3,235 births since 1986.
Zahara first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1986 (first recorded for girls in 1986).
For girls, Zahara reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 20.9% percentile (ranked #741) with 112 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 113 births per million (ranked 20.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Zahara ranks #773 for girls (18.4% percentile) with 102 births per million, which is 90.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zahara".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Zahara. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.6% confident that Zahara is pronounced as zuh-HAH-ruh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is zah-HAH-ruh, at 32.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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