Zehra
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Yüzü pek beyaz ve parlak olan kimse
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zehra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 35th most common given name.
- TRTürkiye1 in 305(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 607
- SYSyria≈1 in 888
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.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- #943 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- 1 in 305 (inferred from the name graph)
268,716 people, 2025
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Yüzü pek beyaz ve parlak olan kimse.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zehra 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #35 | 268,716 | 1 in 305 | 269K | Zehra | 120 |
| AF Afghanistan | #24 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 888 | — | Zehra | 3 |
| SY Syria | #62 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 888 | — | Zehra | 7 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #258 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 11 | Zehra | 15 |
| CY Cyprus | #26 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 607 | — | Zehra | 19 |
268,716 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 2025. 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: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)
Zehra 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 Arabic, beauty
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Serbo-Croatian, little
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)
- Zehra Aylinb. 1912TRTurkish statesperson (1914–1935)
- Zehra Bilirb. 1913TRTurkish singer of Armenian ancestry (1913–2007)
- Zehra Ali Yavar Jungb. 1920INIndian social worker
- Zehra Nigahb. 1936PKUrdu poet and scriptwriter from Pakistan
- Tomris İncerb. 1947TRnot in their usual nameTurkish actor (1947–2015)
- Zehra Sayersb. 1953TRTurkish scientist (born 1953)
- Zehra Çırakb. 1960TRTurkish writer (born 1960)
- Zehra Doğanb. 1989TRTurkish journalist of Kurdish ancestry (born 1989)
- Zehra Gülüçb. 1998TRTurkish singer (born 1998)
- Zehra Güneşb. 1999TRTurkish volleyball player (born 1999)
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 60 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used given names | 2025 | 269K | #9 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2023 | 2.3K | #26 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 11 | — |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 2021 | — | #19 |
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
- Is Zehra a male or female name?
- Zehra 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 does the name Zehra mean?
- Recorded meaning: Yüzü pek beyaz ve parlak olan kimse.
- What are other forms of the name Zehra?
- In the etymology graph, Zahra, Zahira and Zaahira are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Zehra have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 269 thousand people named Zehra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zehra.
- Where is Zehra most common?
- Zehra is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 305 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zehra?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 268,716 people named Zehra in 2025, about 1 in 305 residents.
- How common is Zehra compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Zehra is the 35th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zehraThe 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, “Zehra” — the 35th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.