Zemirah
Feminine · “song”
Zemirah is the Hebrew word for a song, and specifically for the kind sung around a table on the sabbath — home music rather than performance.
How old is the name Zemirah?
Zemirah first appears in US birth records in 1999 — 26 years ago. The typical Zemirah is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Zemirah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Zemirah most popular?
Zemirah peaked in 2024, reaching #2661 nationally. Today it ranks #3517, 856 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
Where it comes from
From zemer to Zemirah
The story of Zemirah
The zemirot are one of the ordinary pleasures of a Jewish sabbath — sung at the table by whoever is there, with no audience and no performance. The word behind them is old and runs through Hebrew in a whole family of terms for singing and for the instruments that accompany it. The biblical Zemirah is a single mention in a genealogy. Its use as a modern women's name belongs to the Israeli practice of taking plain Hebrew words directly.
Meaning
song, melody
From Hebrew zemer, a song or tune; zemirot are the table songs of the sabbath meal, and the same root gives the word for one who sings praise. A biblical Zemirah appears once in Chronicles as a man's name.
How the name formed
- zemer
- Zemirah
Related forms: Zemira · Zemirah
Pronouncing Zemirah
zeh-MEE-rah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Hebrew stresses the last, ze-mi-RAH.
Nicknames for Zemirah
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
- 1999
- Most girls named
- 202465 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2661reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −33.8%43 in 2025, from 65
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.
Zemirah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Zemira in Hebrew — spelling variant
- Zemirah in Yiddish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Illinois.
Zemirahs among us
people named Zemirah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 37,378 born in 2025 was named Zemirah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Zemirah
- #3517
- Zemirah on the 2025 chart
- #872
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Zemirah went to 43 girls in 2025, but Zemira is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 88, which makes it the 872nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,645 places above the chart.
- Zemira45
- Zemirah43
About 1 girl in 18,264 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 37,378 for Zemirah 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 Deneisha test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Zemirah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Deneisha climbed just as high around 1994, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Deneisha's path sketches the road Zemirah is walking now.
Zemirah 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
Where Zemirah is headed
Zemirah looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 19% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Zemirah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Zemirah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning tied to a specific and warm domestic practice.
- Mira sits inside it as a complete name of its own.
- It begins with Z, which keeps it distinct on any list.
- Zemira without the h is equally used and the spelling will be asked for.
- The stress differs between the Hebrew and American readings.
- The biblical bearer of the name is a man, which occasionally causes comment.
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Frequently asked
- How many Zemirahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Zemirah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Zemirah?
- Zemirah is one of 2 recorded spellings. Zemira is the more common one — 45 births in 2025 against 43 for Zemirah.
- How popular is the name Zemirah in 2025?
- Zemirah ranks #3517 among US girl names in 2025, with 43 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Zemirah?
- About 1 in every 37,378 US girls born in 2025 was named Zemirah — 43 in all.
- Will my child share the name Zemirah with classmates?
- Zemirah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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