Zara
For 2025 the count puts Zara at #212 nationwide, at or near its all-time peak. On the books since 1896, peaking in 2022: 20,930 American children so far.
What Zara carries
Zara · Hebrew
“princess”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Zara’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Zara, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Zara since 1896
Zara peaked in 2022 at #201; #212 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Zara is most common
By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Zara runs strongest in District of Columbia at 0.4% in 2025, then North Dakota and Alaska.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Zara
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Miguel
#212 in 2025 · Hebrew
Simon
#230 in 2025 · Hebrew
Abel
#231 in 2025 · Hebrew
Judah
#178 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jude
#155 in 2025 · Hebrew
Matteo
#146 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jonah
#128 in 2025 · Hebrew
Micah
#90 in 2025 · Hebrew
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About Zara
How popular is the name Zara?
For 2025 the count puts Zara at #212 nationwide, at or near its all-time peak. The full curve since 1896 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Zara mean?
The gloss on record reads “princess”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Zara?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Miguel, Simon and Abel, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
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