Entry № 11882 · Arabic origin

Zahra Zahra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ZAH-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Radiant (Fatima al-Zahra - Prophet Muhammad's daughter)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "radiant (fatima al-zahra - prophet muhammad's daughter)".

Zahra is from the Arabic zahrāʾ (زهراء — radiant, luminous, brilliant). Fatima al-Zahra (c. Princess Zahra — Arabic-Muslim heritage naming.

Radiant (Fatima al-Zahra - Prophet Muhammad's daughter) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

زهراء
Transliteration
Zahrāʾ
Pronunciation
/ ˈzɑː.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Zahra stands.

Zahra does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Zahras before her.

Real people
Fatima al-Zahra
Iconic daughter of Prophet Muhammad + wife of Imam Ali.
c. 605 – 632
Zahra Lari
Iconic Emirati first Gulf Arab figure skater.
born 1995
In fiction
Zahra
Arabic radiant.

Names connected to Zahra.

The number behind Zahra.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Zahra reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.