Zahria
Feminine · “Arabic zahra”
Fatima, the Prophet's daughter, is called al-Zahra, the radiant. It is an epithet rather than a name, and in Shia tradition it is used more often than the name itself: the mosque in Cairo, al-Azhar, is named for her. Zahria belongs to that word, which means both radiant and a flower in blossom.
How old is the name Zahria?
Zahria first appears in US birth records in 1995 — 30 years ago. The typical Zahria alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 1,000 people named Zahria are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Zahria most popular?
Zahria peaked in 1998, reaching #2429 nationally. Today it ranks #8362, 5,933 places below that high. See the whole 1998 chart.
Where it comes from
From zahra to Zahria
The story of Zahria
Epithets do a great deal of work in Islamic naming and several of them are used more than the names they attach to. Fatima is al-Zahra, the radiant, and also al-Batul, the pure. Ali is al-Murtada, the chosen. Abu Bakr is al-Siddiq, the truthful. Khalid ibn al-Walid is Sayf Allah, the sword of God. The epithets became names in their own right, so that Zahra, Batul, Murtada and Siddiq are all given to children, and the al-Azhar mosque and university in Cairo, founded in 970, carries Fatima's epithet in its name. The root behind it is entirely ordinary Arabic: zahr is what a plant does in spring, and the connection between flowering and radiance is one the language makes explicitly.
Meaning
Arabic zahra, blossom or radiance
From the Arabic root z-h-r, associated with brightness and with flowering, giving zahr, blossom, and zahra, a flower or a radiant woman. Al-Zahra is the standard epithet of Fatima, daughter of Muhammad. Zahria is an American respelling adding an i; the standard forms are Zahra, Zahara and Zohra. It peaks in 1998.
How the name formed
- zahra
- Zahria
Related forms: Zahra · Zohra · Zehra
Pronouncing Zahria
ZAH-ree-ah
Three syllables, stress on the first. The Arabic Zahra has two, ZAH-rah, with an h between them that English tends to swallow. The added i is an American spelling choice.
Nicknames for Zahria
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1995
- Most girls named
- 200258 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2429reached in 1998
- Change vs 2024
- +33.3%12 in 2025, from 9
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Zahria in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Zahra in Arabic — transliteration
- Zohra in Persian — same name
- Zehra in Turkish — same name
Zahrias among us
people named Zahria are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 133,939 born in 2025 was named Zahria
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Zahria
- #8362
- Zahria on the 2025 chart
- #935
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Zahria went to 12 girls in 2025, but Zahriya and Zahriyah are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 25, which makes it the 935th most-given girls’ name of the year — 7,427 places above the chart.
- Zahria12
- Zahriya8
- Zahriyah5
About 1 girl in 64,291 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 133,939 for Zahria itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Alejandrina test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Zahria's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Alejandrina climbed just as high around 1979, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Alejandrina's path sketches the road Zahria is walking now.
Zahria sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Zahria beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Zahria in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled, positive and doubly apt.
- Zahra is available as a shorter standard form.
- It is used across the Arab world, Iran and Turkey.
- Zahra is the standard spelling and much more common.
- The h between the vowels is often dropped in English.
- Zaria and Zahria are easily confused.
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Frequently asked
- How many Zahrias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Zahria are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Zahria?
- Zahria is the most-used spelling in US records — 12 of the 25 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Zahriya and Zahriyah.
- How popular is the name Zahria in 2025?
- Zahria ranks #8362 among US girl names in 2025, with 12 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Zahria?
- About 1 in every 133,939 US girls born in 2025 was named Zahria — 12 in all.
- Will my child share the name Zahria with classmates?
- Zahria will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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