Zarah is a female first name.
Zarah is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,517 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,516 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Zarah.
In fact, the name Zarah did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Zarah seemed to be more popular than ever in 2022. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,111, 196 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Zarah, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Zarah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Zarah are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Zarah is registered in 18 states, among which are Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia or Illinois. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Zarah live in Florida, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 28,058 would turn around if you called the name Zarah across Florida.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Z is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with Z. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Zarah is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 1.9% of all girls' names beginning with a Z, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with Z that are quite popular, the most common at present is Zoe.
If your name is Zarah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Zarah, you can simply say:
Zebra
Apple
Rocket
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Zarah
Zarah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Z
A
R
A
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
Z
A
R
A
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Zarah sounds like this:
