Zəhra
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zæhrˈa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zəhra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Afghanistan it is the 8th most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 147as Sara(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 230as Sara
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 251as Zahra
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zəhra itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 330 (measured from records)
- 1 in 147 (inferred from the name graph)
874,128 named Sarah, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden, as Sara
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sara in ES Spain, SI Slovenia, MK North Macedonia, Zahra in US United States, AF Afghanistan and Sahra in SE Sweden.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zəhra counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 874,128as Sarah | 1 in 381 | 873K | Zahra | 330 |
| BR Brazil | — | 304,917as Sara | 1 in 694 | 305K | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 179,954as Sara | 1 in 278 | 180K | Sara | 55 |
| AF Afghanistan | #8 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 251 | — | Zahra | 22 |
| SE Sweden | #265 | 69,262as Sara | 1 in 147 | 69K | Sahra | 39 |
| SI Slovenia | #62 | 9,128as Sara | 1 in 230 | 9.1K | Sara | 53 |
| MK North Macedonia | #22 | 8,590as Сара | 1 in 247 | 8.6K | Sara | 33 |
874,128 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling sarah. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names; State Statistical Office — living population names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltanehb. 1883IRnot in their usual namePersian princess and memoirist of the Qajar Dynasty. (1883–1936)
- Zahra Mostafavi Khomeinib. 1940IRnot in their usual nameIranian politician
- Zahra Rahnavardb. 1945IRnot in their usual nameIranian academic and politician
- Zahra Kazemib. 1948IRnot in their usual nameIranian photographer
- Zahra Haddad-Adelb. 1979IRnot in their usual namewife of Mojtaba Khamenei (1979-2026)
- Zahra Amir Ebrahimib. 1981IRnot in their usual nameIranian-French actress
- Zahra Nematib. 1985IRnot in their usual nameIranian Paralympic and Olympic archer (born 1985)
- Zahra Doumandjib. 1991DZnot in their usual nameFrench-Algerian actress and scientist
- Noor Pahlavib. 1992USnot in their usual namemember of Pahlavi dynasty
- Lexi Jonesb. 2000USnot in their usual nameEnglish photographer, fashion designer, and singer-songwriter; daughter of David Bowie
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Zəhra?
- A machine transcription gives /zæhrˈa/ (IPA) for Azerbaijani.
- Is Zəhra a male or female name?
- Zəhra is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Zəhra have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 874 thousand people named Sarah, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Zəhra most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Zəhra itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Sweden's: the national register counts about 1 in 147 people named Sara.
- How common is the name Zəhra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 874,128 people named Sarah in 2020, about 1 in 381 residents.
- How common is Zəhra compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Zəhra is the 8th most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zəhra?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/z%C9%99hraThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zəhra” — the 8th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.