Zahíra
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zahíra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country. Recorded meaning: bright, brilliant, shining, luminous, distinguished, lofty.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 27K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zahira in AR Argentina, ES Spain, MA Morocco and 2 more and Захира in AZ Azerbaijan.
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(measured from records)
bright, brilliant, shining, luminous, distinguished, lofty
Sources 2
- The African book of names
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zahíra 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | listed | Zahira | 25 |
| AR Argentina | #984 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 50 | Zahira | 53 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 94K | listed | Zahira | 16 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,847 | 1 in 27K | 1.8K | Zahira | 65 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Zahira | 6 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Захира | 9 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 174 | 1 in 19K | 174 | — | 13 |
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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Zahíra is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Croatian, reg. hrana (bilo ljudska ili stočna); namirnice (ob. koje se drže spremljene kao zaliha ili nose na put ili na pašu)
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zahíra mean, and where does it come from?
- bright, brilliant, shining, luminous, distinguished, lofty Recorded by The African book of names and A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Zahíra a male or female name?
- Zahíra 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 Zahíra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Zahíra in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zahira.
- How common is the name Zahíra?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,847 people named Zahíra, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Zahíra compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Zahíra is the 984th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zah%C3%ADraThe 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, “Zahíra” — the 984th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.