Zoha
Feminine · “forenoon”
Zoha is the Urdu rendering of an Arabic word for the brightest part of the morning — the hour when the sun has fully risen. A chapter of the Qur'an carries the word as its title.
How old is the name Zoha?
Zoha first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Zoha is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,100 people named Zoha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Zoha most popular?
Zoha peaked in 2022, reaching #2756 nationally. Today it ranks #3130, 374 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.
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Where it comes from
From duha to Zoha
The story of Zoha
Duha names the part of the day when the sun is well up and the light is at its clearest, and it titles a short and much-loved chapter of the Qur'an that opens by swearing on that light. Arabic-speaking families use the name as Duha; Persian and Urdu speakers pronounce the first letter differently, and their spelling in Roman letters comes out as Zoha or Zuha. It reaches American records chiefly with families from Pakistan and northern India.
Meaning
forenoon, the brightness of morning
From Arabic duha, the mid-morning; Urdu and Persian pronounce the initial Arabic letter as a z, which is why the same word is written Duha in Arabic and Zoha or Zuha in Urdu.
How the name formed
- duha
- Zoha
Related forms: Duha · Zuha · Zoha
Pronouncing Zoha
ZOH-hah
Two syllables with an audible h between them. English speakers often drop it, leaving ZOH-ah.
Nicknames for Zoha
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
- 1993
- Most girls named
- 202262 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2756reached in 2022
- Change vs 2024
- +2.0%51 in 2025, from 50
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.
Zoha in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Duha in Arabic — same name
- Zuha in Urdu — spelling variant
- Zoha in Persian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, California, Texas.
Zohas among us
people named Zoha are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 31,515 born in 2025 was named Zoha
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Lania test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Zoha's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lania climbed just as high around 2005, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lania's path sketches the road Zoha is walking now.
Zoha 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 Zoha is headed
Zoha should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium 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.
Zoha beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Zoha in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Four letters and two easy syllables, readable at sight by an English speaker.
- A concrete meaning — a specific hour of daylight — rather than an abstraction.
- It begins with Z, which keeps it distinct on any list.
- Zuha, Duha and Zoha are the same name, and different branches of a family may each use one.
- It is very close to Zoe and Zora in an American ear and will be heard as one of them.
- The h in the middle disappears in fast English speech.
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Frequently asked
- How many Zohas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Zoha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Zoha in 2025?
- Zoha ranks #3130 among US girl names in 2025, with 51 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Zoha?
- About 1 in every 31,515 US girls born in 2025 was named Zoha — 51 in all.
- Will my child share the name Zoha with classmates?
- Zoha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Zoha
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