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Also Bosnian: https://www.behindthename.com/name/zara-1/top/bosnia
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Names that start with Z are so exotic. This name is absolutely stunning, I picture someone with this name being quite beautiful.
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Makes me think of the fast fashion clothing store, it would probably be pretty if not for that.
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Only for a British girl.
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Kids who have names that start with a Z get teased and bullied relentlessly by their classmates. Never give your child a name that starts with this letter. They will hate it and they will hate you for giving it to them. They might even change their name like I did.
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Zara Aronson, OBE, (née Baar; 1864–1944) was an Australian journalist, editor, welfare worker, feminist and restaurateur of Jewish background. She was born in Australia but spent her formative years in Europe, before returning to Sydney where she became a socialite as well as a social columnist and journalist in a number of major newspapers across Australian cities. She pursued social and charity work as well as her own business in publishing, food and catering. Aronson helped form the Society for Women Writers and a local branch of John O'London's Literary Circle, and was a founding member and secretary of the National Council of Women of Australia. During World War II she raised funds for the Junior Red Cross by selling a cookery book, after which she published another well-received cookbook, Twentieth Century Cookery Practice.
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My dear daughter’s name is Zara Amenah. When she was in my stomach, her father actually called her Amenah. I thought of it as Amina but he said in his country Turkey Amina means something like private parts?! Can’t remember exactly. Amina was the name of the Prophet Muhammad’s mother, peace be on him and peace on his mother too. I had to eventually change Amina to Amenah to please him but guess what? I was being bothered excessively about naming our daughter. It was exhausting. I remember my mother, God comfort her beautiful soul, also wanted to name my son Zakee (he writes Zak as an adult now) since my grandmother named me Jane. (I would’ve been an ugly Nancy) So, I thought of Sarah or Sara but I felt like there were so many Sarahs so when I stumbled upon Zara, of course the Zara store reminded me of it too, I told my husband Omer that Zara sounds better and I researched and somehow found that in Turkey there is a place called Zara right in or next to my husband’s place of birth in Sivas. That was it, my mother listened to how happy my husband was that we found the perfect name for our daughter. He immediately wanted Zara. He pronounces it in an accented way almost rolling the r or something. Funny! I have heard people mispronounce her name. I hate when they say Zahra or Zaara. I like it sounding like Sara but with a Z! So, my 15 1/2 year old is Zara Amenah. Thanks be to God for my son and daughter. I love them so much. Also, the Zara store sells clothing and perfume with my daughter’s name on it and I love that! Many birthdays I have bought her shirts that say her name on them or scarves with her name all over it. One shirt had cats on each letter of her name. That was sooo adorable. I have one shirt I wear that says I love Zara on it. Superb! Whoever is saying Zara is an ugly name is crazy! Zara is an Arabic/Muslim name but it is also used in Hebrew and other countries of course. I have learned it means many things like: princess in Arabic, the brightness of dawn in Hebrew, flower in Swahili. It means glorious and one who laughs. Also: flower. People spell it like this too: Zahra (Arabic), Zaira (English, Arabic), Zahira or Zahirita (Spanish).
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I think that this name is ✨ beautiful ✨. It is actually my name but I love it. It comes from Zahra meaning flower and I thunk that’s amazing.
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I think it sounds like an old name or a name for ants.
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Super pretty. I don't care about the clothing brand.
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It’s so pretty! I can totally imagine it on a toddler, kid, teen, adult, or old lady!
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Also Italian, pronounced DZAH-rah.
In 2019 were born 31 Zara (0.02% of the newborns). It was the #471 most used name in 2019 and all around Italy live 1,376 Zara.
It is the variant of Zaira. Then it is also used as Italianization of many Arabic and Hebrew names (Zerah, Zahrah, Zahra) and a short of some Slavic and Russian names.
So in Italy Zara is becoming a very multi-tasking name, useful to translate a lot of foreign names. I think that it will fastly increase in popularity.
Infact in 2003 were born less than five babies with this name but after 2012 it has increased in popularity.
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In 2019 were born 31 Zara (0.02% of the newborns). It was the #471 most used name in 2019 and all around Italy live 1,376 Zara.
It is the variant of Zaira. Then it is also used as Italianization of many Arabic and Hebrew names (Zerah, Zahrah, Zahra) and a short of some Slavic and Russian names.
So in Italy Zara is becoming a very multi-tasking name, useful to translate a lot of foreign names. I think that it will fastly increase in popularity.
Infact in 2003 were born less than five babies with this name but after 2012 it has increased in popularity.
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Love it! Other than the brand, I think it’s cool!
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Gorgeous name but the clothing store association kinda ruins it a bit.
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Zara is simply an alternative spelling of Zahra/Zahrah. It’s Arabic in origin and this page should acknowledge that rather than describing it as English (modern). It didn’t come from nowhere.
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Ugh. I don't like it. Overwrought and harsh sounding. Reminds me of being stranded in the tundra far away from everything I love and hold dear... (Or at least, how I imagine it would feel). Thinking of this name, I can just feel the bitterly cold winds sweeping across my face. Don't mind me, just making my way to the ice fortress that is Zara. No.
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Similar words with various transcriptions into English, e.g. zarya (Russian) and zahrah (Arabic), mean dawn. Considering the name is much older and more global than just a clothing store, this bright and positive meaning - a new day - could also be responsible for its current popularity.
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Different. Not a fan!
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Bizarre name. Sounds weird.
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Pretty and exotic.
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Cute!
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Elegant and unique.
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Super pretty!
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Love this name. In 8th grade I had a crush named Xara with an X. I like the name Xara along with Zara.
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Such a beautiful name! One of my favorites.
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I love this name. It's unique, pretty, cultural... I just love it. But then Zara Dearborn came along, and my immense love for The Shadowhunters Chronicles puts me off from liking this name. I'm really conflicted on it now. But I feel like it could be a nice nickname for any of the Sara names (though Zara is pronounced with a short a, not like Sarah), like Sarina.
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Absolutely stunning! It also makes me think of the Zara clothes line.
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I am Jewish and my parents always told me the name meant "to shine brightly" in Hebrew. Then I studied Hebrew. It's a language with sets of three root letters that are made into related verbs, adjectives, and nouns by adding letters around the root letters. To complicate matters, there are several forms of H (Hei, Chet, Chaf) and several silent gutterals that, when added in between or at the end of Zayin Resh, change the meaning of the root.
I haven't been able to find reliable information about the Hebrew root, yet, but here's what Google Translate gives me:
Zayin-Resh translates to stranger, foreigner, outsider. To make it feminine, one adds a Hei to the masculine form of the word, pronouncing it "Za-RAH."
Zayin-Hei-Resh-Hei (which, when vowels are added, is pronounced "Zi-ha-ra" and where we get names like Zahara and Sahara) translates to brightness or radiance.
Zayin-Vav(vowel O)-Hei-Resh translates to radiant, incandescent, lustrous.
So as best as I can tell, this name from the bastardized Hebrew is intended to mean brightness. I have also found words in my search connected to dawn and blooming.
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I haven't been able to find reliable information about the Hebrew root, yet, but here's what Google Translate gives me:
Zayin-Resh translates to stranger, foreigner, outsider. To make it feminine, one adds a Hei to the masculine form of the word, pronouncing it "Za-RAH."
Zayin-Hei-Resh-Hei (which, when vowels are added, is pronounced "Zi-ha-ra" and where we get names like Zahara and Sahara) translates to brightness or radiance.
Zayin-Vav(vowel O)-Hei-Resh translates to radiant, incandescent, lustrous.
So as best as I can tell, this name from the bastardized Hebrew is intended to mean brightness. I have also found words in my search connected to dawn and blooming.
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Zara Anne Elizabeth Tindall MBE is a British equestrian and the second child and only daughter of Anne, Princess Royal, and her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips. She is the second-eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Tindall is married to former England rugby union player Mike Tindall.
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Zara Maria Larsson is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She first gained national fame for winning the 2008 season of the talent show Talang, the Swedish version of Got Talent, at the age of 10. Larsson signed with the record label TEN Music Group in 2012 and released her debut EP album, Introducing, in January 2013. The single "Uncover" topped the charts in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. By February 2013, "Uncover" was certified platinum by Universal Music Sweden. In July 2013, Introducing was certified triple platinum in the country. Larsson also signed a three-year contract with Epic Records in the United States in April 2013. She performed at the opening and closing ceremonies in France for UEFA Euro 2016.
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This is one of my favorite Z names, along with Ziva. I think it is beautiful. It is modern yet old fashioned. It's a pretty name for a little girl, yet sounds great on a grown woman.
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Zara is a beautiful name and people with this name have a charming personality.
Passion of people with this name is "To live their dreams and turn fantasies into realities".
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Passion of people with this name is "To live their dreams and turn fantasies into realities".
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My husband saw the name Zara as a child and new he wanted to name his little girl that...42 years later he got that chance. Zara is now one. I did some research and it means Princess in Hebrew and I plan on getting a tattoo of her name in Hebrew spelling. It's quite beautiful. My daughter's middle name is Elizabeth. I named her after an ancestor - Queen Elizabeth the first's cousin, several times removed of course :)
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I don't like this name. There's something about the sound of it that makes it sound stupid, weird and ugly.
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Zara Maria Larsson (Born: December 16, 1997) is a Swedish singer.
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I think the name Zara is a stunning, elegant, beautiful, sophisticated name and I love how it's Arabic! It definitely has a lot to offer! ｡◕‿◕｡.
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A beautiful, delectable name - almost irresistible. I have just heard of a newborn Jewish baby with this name. I assumed that her Hebrew name would be Sarah but in fact it's Zahava.
I also know a sibset called Leora, Zara and Adina.
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I also know a sibset called Leora, Zara and Adina.
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This was my great-great grandmother's name, but she went by Sarah after she and my great-great grandfather emigrated from Germany to the United States.
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This really should be credited as an Arabic name. ¬_¬ It's written as زارہ.
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Wikipedia, on the naming of Zara, the Spanish clothing retailer:
Amancio Ortega opened the first Zara store in 1974 in a central street in downtown A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. Ortega named his store Zorba after watching the classic film Zorba the Greek, but apparently there was a bar that was called the same, Zorba, two blocks away, and the owner of the bar came and said, "this is going to confuse things to have two Zorbas." They had already made the molds for the letters in the sign, so they just rearranged them to see what they could find, and they found Zara.
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Amancio Ortega opened the first Zara store in 1974 in a central street in downtown A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. Ortega named his store Zorba after watching the classic film Zorba the Greek, but apparently there was a bar that was called the same, Zorba, two blocks away, and the owner of the bar came and said, "this is going to confuse things to have two Zorbas." They had already made the molds for the letters in the sign, so they just rearranged them to see what they could find, and they found Zara.
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In British English it's pronounced ZAR-ə.
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This name is more popular in Australia than anywhere else in the world - it's in the top 25 names for girls.
There have been a number of famous Australians called Zara over the years, which may help explain it.
Zara Hore-Ruthven, Countess of Gowrie (1879-1965), who was wife of the Governor of South Australia.
Dame Zara Kate Holt (1909-1989), wife of Prime Minister Harold Holt.
Why the name continues to climb is something of a mystery, however. It's hard to believe it's because of the clothing brand when it is not available in Australia yet (will be later in 2011).
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There have been a number of famous Australians called Zara over the years, which may help explain it.
Zara Hore-Ruthven, Countess of Gowrie (1879-1965), who was wife of the Governor of South Australia.
Dame Zara Kate Holt (1909-1989), wife of Prime Minister Harold Holt.
Why the name continues to climb is something of a mystery, however. It's hard to believe it's because of the clothing brand when it is not available in Australia yet (will be later in 2011).
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Zara is also used in Croatia.
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Name of the heroine in Carrie Jone's book Need.
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I know it's a clothing label popular in Europe. I guess it's a cool name.
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I've liked this name since I was a child - to me it seems very pretty, cool and exotic-sounding, without being difficult to spell or pronounce. Like Sara, but with a more modern twist. I don't associate Zara with the clothing brand, because I knew people called it long before I'd heard of the brand. However, unfortunately Zara is a bit too overused for my tastes. I know many Zaras, and that would put me off using the name myself. But Ciara and Sara are way more common than it and I still would use them. It's just there are some names I mind being popular and others I love regardless.
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To me this is a bit of a "guilty pleasure" name - it seems slightly too spectacular and exotic for everyday life. However it's currently a Top 40 name in Australia, so obviously other people don't feel the same way.
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Be careful, Zara is rising in popularity.
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Zara is also Czech and Slovak form of Zahrah.
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In Hebrew Zara means fruitful. It is a form of the name Zarah. Zarah was a twin of Perez born to Tamar and Judah.
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ZARA means "fruitful" in Aramaic. It is a form of ZARAH born to TAMAR and JUDAH. Refer to: (Genesis 38:24-30). It also means "rising light".
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Pronounced "zah-rah".
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Zara is a beautiful name. It makes me think of a girl who is short in stature, but full of spice, and witty comebacks. A girl who has a short temper and is very athletic.
Zara seems to be really close to Zora which is really close to Zorro. So whenever I think Zara I also think black curly hair.
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Zara seems to be really close to Zora which is really close to Zorro. So whenever I think Zara I also think black curly hair.
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I like this name, pretty and unusual. I only like the ZAH-rah pronunciation of it though. Za-rah sounds too much like Sarah, which I hate.
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Because of the clothing store, unfortunately in my mind this feels like naming a child "Gap" or "Old Navy".
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This is also a girls name in Slovenia.
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"Zara" is also used in Bulgaria. [noted -ed]
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The Princess Royal's daughter is Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips, named for her mother, both her grandmothers and her great-grandmother. The name 'Zara' was chosen by her uncle, the Prince of Wales; it's a Greek name meaning 'bright as the dawn'.
Zara is also the name of Greta Garbo's character in the 1932 movie, 'As You Desire Me'.
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Zara is also the name of Greta Garbo's character in the 1932 movie, 'As You Desire Me'.
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I have seen this name with an *h* on the end, but only once and I have never seen it this way.
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Zara is the name of the heroine of Gilbert and Sullivan's penultimate opera Utopia Limited.
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Zara is a beautiful name! It's elegant, unique and has an element of mystery about it. I named my darling daughter Zara as she was born in the morning. I felt like she was my "radiant dawn" (and she still is!). Whenever I tell people her name, they all comment on how regal it sounds.
"Zara" the name has been around much longer than the actual high-chain store! So it does seem a bit funny that some people only recognize it in conjuction with the retail shop!
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"Zara" the name has been around much longer than the actual high-chain store! So it does seem a bit funny that some people only recognize it in conjuction with the retail shop!
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My name is Zara, I think it's a great name because I don't know anyone else with this name. So if somebody calls me 10 people don't look up to see if they are being spoken to. Also it suits me, it's individual, it gives an impression of a mystic or clairvoyant. I read that it originates from Hebrew meaning 'as bright as the dawn', also read somewhere else it means 'flower' in Arabic. I met a Turkish guy once who asked me if I have Turkish family, because it's popular there. I like the fact that its very uncommon and want it to stay that way!
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My name is Zara and I once had a friend who told me that the name in India means flower and also means princess in Hebrew.
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No Zara is not Indian. It is simply an Arabic name. It is however a beautiful name.
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It's a great alternative to the plain jane Sarah.
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Queen Elizabeth's daughter Princess Ann named her daughter Zara.
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I once had a friend who was named this. She insisted on being called 'Sarah', though.
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Zara is a gorgeous name. (It is also the name of a clothing store, but that wouldn't put me off the name at all.)
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