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How popular is the name Zara?
Births per year, rank history and how many Zaras are alive today.
Zara (female) is currently the 69th most popular girls' name in England and Wales, with 666 babies given the name in 2024. This spelling of the name peaked in 2008, when 938 babies were given the name, the 71st most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2016, with 876 babies given the name that year. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 19,000 babies have been named Zara in England and Wales since 1996. Zara is one spelling of a name also recorded as Zarah; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Zara you are most likely to meet is around 18 years old. Half of all Zaras born in England and Wales are between 9 and 22, and there are at least 22,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 6.7% chance that at least one of them will be called Zara.
How many babies are named Zara each year?
Includes all spellings: Zara, Zarah. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Zara spelling rank?
Where does the Zarah spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Zara most popular?
Zara peaked in 2008, when 1,002 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Zara?
At least 22,000 people named Zara in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Zara?
Most living Zaras are between 9 and 22; the most common age is about 18.
Is Zara becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.