Zahira
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Glittering
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zahira is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country.
- 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)
Locally spelled 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)
Glittering.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zahira 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); the ma-etatcivil-authorized-given-names register; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register. 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)
Zahira is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, helper, supporter, protector, patron; fem. of Zahir. See Zahir (m.)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, bright, brilliant, shining, luminous, distinguished, lofty
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, helper, supporter, protector, patron; feminine of Zahir
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In dag, 1. publicly 2. to become known in the open, (always refers to revealing bad character)
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zahira Kamalb. 1945PSpolitician
- Zahira Ben Ammarb. 1956TNTunisian actress
- Zahira Zahirb. 1972American hairdresser
- Zahira Berrezougab. 1976ITItalian actress
- Zahira Yakubovab. 1980AZbadminton player
- Zahira Abdelkaderb. 1991DZAlgerian kyokushin
- Zahira Gonzalez DiezESresearcher
- Zahira BarnetoSpanish production designer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.8K | #1,840 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.7K | #987 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 174 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 168 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 50 | #1,068 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 18 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 18 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 6 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 2012 | 2 | — |
| MA Morocco | Liste des prénoms d'usage au Maroc — official authorized given-names list | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Zahira have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Zahira in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zahira.
- What does the name Zahira mean, and where does it come from?
- Glittering. Recorded by The African book of names.
- Is Zahira a male or female name?
- Zahira 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.
- What are other forms of the name Zahira?
- In the etymology graph, Zehra is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Zahira?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,847 people named Zahira, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Zahira compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Zahira is the 984th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zahira?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zahiraThe 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, “Zahira” — the 984th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.