Zaara
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sahara
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Zaara is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 729K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 1.1M
- DKDenmark1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 85K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Sahara
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zaara 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Zaara | 7 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 201K | listed | Zaara | 12 |
| US United States | 586 | 1 in 568K | 580 | Zaara | 58 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 879K | — | Zaara | 22 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Zaara | 7 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 271K | — | Zaara | 8 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Zaara | 16 |
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; 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).
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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 580 | #18,408 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 52 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 51 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 17 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6 | #18,408 |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zaara mean, and where does it come from?
- Sahara Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Zaara a male or female name?
- Zaara is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Zaara have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Zaara in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zaara.
- How common is the name Zaara?
- In the United States, the national register counted 586 people named Zaara in 2020, about 1 in 568 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zaaraThe 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, “Zaara”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.