Zara Forename
2,576th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 401,386 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Chad
Highest density in:
Chad
Zara Forename Definition:
Arabic (feminine) - The brightness of the East.
Read More About This ForenameZara Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chad | 100% | 147,360 | 1:92 | 6 |
| Niger | 97% | 76,724 | 1:250 | 42 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 51,485 | 1:3,449 | 608 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 17,616 | 1:1,227 | 245 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 17,211 | 1:11,293 | 1,171 |
| Russia | 99% | 15,832 | 1:9,110 | 354 |
| Madagascar | 100% | 8,464 | 1:2,792 | 643 |
| Burkina Faso | 99% | 8,280 | 1:2,220 | 327 |
| England | 100% | 6,904 | 1:8,054 | 699 |
| Syria | - | 6,636 | 1:2,909 | 435 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 6,118 | 1:1,369 | 268 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 3,468 | 1:28,132 | 3,442 |
| United States | 94% | 2,528 | 1:143,409 | 5,705 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 1,999 | 1:15,401 | 1,584 |
| Bangladesh | - | 1,925 | 1:82,837 | 6,005 |
| Peru | 100% | 1,711 | 1:18,581 | 1,542 |
| Morocco | - | 1,283 | 1:26,772 | 1,476 |
| Philippines | 99% | 1,095 | 1:96,812 | 5,491 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 1,084 | 1:237,974 | 22,050 |
| Kazakhstan | 99% | 1,068 | 1:16,617 | 1,138 |
| India | 88% | 1,056 | 1:1,150,453 | 71,918 |
| Mexico | 100% | 1,034 | 1:120,062 | 2,791 |
| Armenia | 99% | 970 | 1:3,009 | 463 |
| Brazil | 100% | 957 | 1:223,862 | 9,622 |
| Ghana | - | 955 | 1:28,258 | 1,855 |
| Egypt | 75% | 933 | 1:98,500 | 4,548 |
| Spain | 100% | 833 | 1:55,858 | 2,133 |
| Sweden | 100% | 780 | 1:12,638 | 1,035 |
| Afghanistan | 83% | 753 | 1:43,325 | 2,265 |
| Benin | 100% | 728 | 1:14,527 | 1,727 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 711 | 1:3,458 | 502 |
| Mali | 100% | 663 | 1:25,607 | 1,686 |
| Yemen | - | 630 | 1:41,741 | 1,155 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 572 | 1:36,362 | 4,240 |
| Australia | - | 561 | 1:24,345 | 1,587 |
| Canada | 100% | 458 | 1:72,344 | 4,181 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 450 | 1:4,096 | 506 |
| France | 100% | 449 | 1:148,041 | 2,763 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 408 | 1:74,024 | 3,749 |
| Somalia | - | 399 | 1:33,899 | 2,007 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 398 | 1:18,183 | 1,246 |
| Wales | 100% | 363 | 1:8,524 | 758 |
| Scotland | 100% | 327 | 1:16,362 | 887 |
| New Zealand | - | 325 | 1:13,957 | 1,285 |
| Azerbaijan | 98% | 319 | 1:30,229 | 2,337 |
| Malaysia | 92% | 316 | 1:96,361 | 6,830 |
| Iran | 100% | 308 | 1:254,860 | 4,170 |
| Turkey | 99% | 296 | 1:262,844 | 5,093 |
| Poland | 92% | 283 | 1:134,371 | 2,707 |
| Portugal | - | 277 | 1:37,584 | 1,442 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 247 | 1:22,157 | 550 |
| DR Congo | 79% | 233 | 1:316,857 | 12,497 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 233 | 1:132,243 | 12,172 |
| Bulgaria | 99% | 231 | 1:30,261 | 1,915 |
| Italy | 96% | 227 | 1:268,996 | 3,491 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 217 | 1:77,890 | 4,468 |
| Lebanon | 95% | 206 | 1:27,318 | 1,801 |
| Kenya | - | 184 | 1:251,669 | 9,410 |
| Colombia | 100% | 181 | 1:263,972 | 5,430 |
| South Africa | 99% | 175 | 1:311,615 | 17,405 |
| Tanzania | 94% | 172 | 1:306,909 | 10,602 |
| Ireland | 100% | 155 | 1:29,958 | 1,224 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 99% | 150 | 1:39,822 | 3,905 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 148 | 1:70,482 | 4,180 |
| Thailand | 100% | 129 | 1:543,146 | 25,129 |
| Belgium | 100% | 114 | 1:100,790 | 3,475 |
| Germany | 100% | 111 | 1:870,972 | 7,247 |
| Argentina | 100% | 110 | 1:388,848 | 3,313 |
| Ivory Coast | 92% | 107 | 1:215,663 | 10,531 |
| Ukraine | 100% | 104 | 1:437,499 | 2,020 |
| Iraq | 100% | 97 | 1:361,009 | 4,694 |
| Belarus | 100% | 96 | 1:98,775 | 1,026 |
| Denmark | - | 95 | 1:59,468 | 2,126 |
| Czechia | 88% | 81 | 1:131,558 | 1,298 |
| China | - | 80 | 1:17,075,697 | 60,154 |
| Algeria | 100% | 68 | 1:561,422 | 4,607 |
| Honduras | 100% | 62 | 1:142,217 | 3,926 |
| Bahrain | - | 59 | 1:22,859 | 3,234 |
| Georgia | 94% | 55 | 1:67,972 | 2,931 |
| Singapore | 100% | 55 | 1:114,310 | 7,597 |
| Latvia | 100% | 53 | 1:38,031 | 1,232 |
| Norway | 100% | 52 | 1:98,699 | 3,209 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 50 | 1:27,228 | 2,966 |
| Panama | 100% | 42 | 1:93,013 | 4,752 |
| Kuwait | - | 38 | 1:99,612 | 6,886 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 37 | 1:435,363 | 4,270 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 31 | 1:264,951 | 5,486 |
| Israel | 68% | 28 | 1:300,104 | 7,626 |
| Qatar | 100% | 28 | 1:84,629 | 9,711 |
| Maldives | 100% | 26 | 1:16,689 | 777 |
| Serbia | 100% | 25 | 1:285,829 | 4,007 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 24 | 1:298,000 | 16,364 |
| El Salvador | - | 23 | 1:275,730 | 3,338 |
| Uganda | 100% | 23 | 1:1,780,736 | 24,513 |
| Jordan | 97% | 21 | 1:420,323 | 3,578 |
| Kosovo | - | 19 | 1:97,971 | 5,437 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 19 | 1:316,755 | 6,627 |
| Finland | 88% | 18 | 1:304,621 | 4,354 |
| Papua New Guinea | 71% | 18 | 1:452,906 | 34,619 |
| Estonia | 100% | 17 | 1:77,375 | 3,612 |
| Angola | - | 16 | 1:1,685,413 | 2,877 |
| Hong Kong | - | 16 | 1:484,545 | 4,322 |
| Mozambique | - | 16 | 1:1,702,710 | 1,919 |
| Congo | 100% | 15 | 1:333,947 | 6,940 |
| Greece | 100% | 14 | 1:781,039 | 8,435 |
| Liberia | 60% | 12 | 1:367,672 | 10,977 |
| Tunisia | - | 12 | 1:56,408 | 2,773 |
| Japan | - | 9 | 1:14,220,673 | 39,809 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 9 | 1:787,629 | 675 |
| Chile | 100% | 8 | 1:2,200,901 | 14,453 |
| Cuba | - | 8 | 1:1,438,319 | 4,450 |
| Oman | 100% | 8 | 1:513,583 | 5,181 |
| Senegal | 100% | 8 | 1:1,822,670 | 12,813 |
| Albania | 100% | 7 | 1:435,224 | 16,450 |
| Austria | 100% | 7 | 1:1,216,314 | 8,086 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 7 | 1:2,203,402 | 59,073 |
| Bolivia | - | 6 | 1:1,766,901 | 4,084 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 6 | 1:29,636 | 2,683 |
| Ecuador | - | 5 | 1:3,545,384 | 15,000 |
| Moldova | - | 5 | 1:712,228 | 3,885 |
| Bermuda | - | 4 | 1:16,206 | 1,525 |
| Central African Republic | - | 4 | 1:1,128,848 | 698 |
| Jamaica | - | 4 | 1:720,807 | 13,486 |
| Malta | - | 4 | 1:107,340 | 2,111 |
| Romania | 100% | 4 | 1:5,012,994 | 31,756 |
| South Korea | - | 4 | 1:1,386,105 | 20,690 |
| Sudan | 100% | 4 | 1:9,451,744 | 6,661 |
| Vietnam | - | 4 | 1:23,155,778 | 5,302 |
| Croatia | - | 3 | 1:1,405,692 | 11,430 |
| Grenada | 100% | 3 | 1:36,042 | 2,687 |
| Isle of Man | 100% | 3 | 1:28,341 | 386 |
| Jersey | - | 3 | 1:33,327 | 1,495 |
| Mauritania | 100% | 3 | 1:1,365,080 | 16,011 |
| Mauritius | - | 3 | 1:432,595 | 7,262 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 3 | 1:211,525 | 3,416 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 3 | 1:158,546 | 1,411 |
| Andorra | - | 2 | 1:41,444 | 944 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 2 | 1:1,762,229 | 6,852 |
| Brunei | - | 2 | 1:209,785 | 2,478 |
| Cape Verde | - | 2 | 1:264,576 | 4,841 |
| Guinea | - | 2 | 1:5,929,324 | 6,648 |
| Hungary | 95% | 2 | 1:4,895,886 | 4,852 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 2 | 1:1,019,998 | 36,117 |
| Lithuania | - | 2 | 1:1,475,941 | 3,949 |
| Macau | - | 2 | 1:304,104 | 1,640 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 2 | 1:1,045,378 | 12,250 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 2 | 1:1,775,150 | 6,781 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 2 | 1:55,790 | 4,636 |
| Zambia | - | 2 | 1:7,927,397 | 45,785 |
| Abkhazia | - | 1 | 1:243,422 | 3,525 |
| Barbados | - | 1 | 1:289,789 | 3,893 |
| Belize | - | 1 | 1:354,309 | 7,663 |
| Bhutan | - | 1 | 1:824,928 | 6,865 |
| Botswana | - | 1 | 1:2,184,449 | 21,741 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 1 | 1:61,299 | 2,487 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 1 | 1:4,767,948 | 27,206 |
| Cyprus | - | 1 | 1:871,076 | 5,368 |
| Dominica | - | 1 | 1:75,471 | 1,341 |
| Fiji | - | 1 | 1:892,378 | 3,968 |
| French Polynesia | - | 1 | 1:277,902 | 3,605 |
| Gambia | - | 1 | 1:1,926,596 | 1,391 |
| Guernsey | 100% | 1 | 1:63,331 | 901 |
| Guinea-Bissau | - | 1 | 1:1,728,218 | 422 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Libya | - | 1 | 1:6,221,309 | 3,060 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 1 | 1:37,856 | 1,091 |
| Luxembourg | - | 1 | 1:564,049 | 5,042 |
| Malawi | - | 1 | 1:17,112,310 | 24,110 |
| Monaco | - | 1 | 1:38,466 | 2,379 |
| Montserrat | - | 1 | 1:4,876 | 752 |
| Myanmar | - | 1 | 1:51,948,273 | 3,226 |
| Namibia | - | 1 | 1:2,404,179 | 16,970 |
| Nauru | 100% | 1 | 1:11,927 | 903 |
| Rwanda | 100% | 1 | 1:11,371,433 | 4,615 |
| Seychelles | - | 1 | 1:92,670 | 1,891 |
| South Ossetia | 100% | 1 | 1:53,551 | 905 |
| Swaziland | - | 1 | 1:1,300,177 | 3,374 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 1 | 1:23,769,682 | 193,280 |
| Togo | - | 1 | 1:7,239,239 | 8,047 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:109,747 | 4,493 |
| Uruguay | - | 1 | 1:3,427,637 | 13,958 |
The alternate forms: Žara (10) & Zará (1) are calculated separately.
Zara (57,858) may also be a surname.
Zara Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Arabic (feminine) - The brightness of the East.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
Meaning: a rising (as the sun).
— A Dictionary of the Proper Names of the Old and New Testament (1909) by James Beaumont Jackson
User-submitted Reference
The name Zara means 'high status', 'exalted', 'princess' in Hindi.
- zaabZara Forename Popularity
Zara Demographics
Average Zara Salary in
United States
$44,724 USD
Per year
Rank:
186,180 of 531,972
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
0.000601675
Rank: 6,203 of 532,209
Percentage of national average salary:
102.75%
Sample size: 1,109 (2014)
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD
Phonetically Similar Names
Zara Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Zara in the Russian language | ||
| Зара | zara | - |
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