Zarah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: tiny particle, speck
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈzæɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zarah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 31K
- USUnited States1 in 164K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 239 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
tiny particle, speck
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zarah 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Zarah | 33 |
| PH Philippines | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Zarah | 93 |
| US United States | 2,032 | 1 in 164K | 2K | Zarah | 239 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Zarah | 25 |
| SE Sweden | 467 | 1 in 22K | 467 | Zarah | 41 |
| NL Netherlands | 401 | 1 in 43K | 401 | Zarah | 20 |
| DK Denmark | 126 | 1 in 47K | 126 | Zarah | 35 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Zarah is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Zarah Leander, schwedische
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In sux, romanization of 𒊕𒉺𒆸 (zaraḫ)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Zarah Garde-Wilsonb. 1978AUAustralian solicitor
- Zarah Ziadib. 1979DEGerman movie director
- Zarah Ghahramanib. 1981IRauthor
- Zarah Littleb. 1981USAmerican actress
- Kim Zarah Langnerb. 1986DEGerman actress
- Zarah Sultanab. 1993GBBritish politician
- Zarah Razafimahatratrab. 1994MGMalagasy tennis player
- Diamond Zahrab. 1996NEnot in their usual nameNigerian actress
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)
Attested in 60 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2K | #7,495 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 467 | #2,907 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 401 | #2,357 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 304 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 289 | #4,427 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 151 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 126 | #1,348 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 19 | #7,495 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Zarah mean, and where does it come from?
- tiny particle, speck Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Zarah a male or female name?
- Zarah 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.
- How common is the name Zarah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,032 people named Zarah in 2020, about 1 in 164 thousand residents.
- How do you pronounce Zarah?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈzæɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Zarah?
- In the etymology graph, Zerach is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Zarah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.9 thousand people named Zarah in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zarah.
What do you want to know about Zarah?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zarahThe 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, “Zarah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.