Zehra
Just over 90 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one. Hebrew at root, the name points to a flower and to radiance.
Zehra Pronunciation
Zehra is pronounced ZEKH-rah (/ˈzɛxra/).
What Zehra means
Where Zehra comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The short meaning of Zehra reads as flower and radiant. Its older thread runs to the Hebrew zohar, a word for brightness and shining light. That Hebrew root is where the sense of radiance begins.
In Turkish naming, Zehra became common as a form tied to Fatıma ez-Zehra, "the radiant," the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad. The epithet ez-Zehra marks light, and the name kept that meaning as Turkish families passed it down. It stayed close to the idea of shining.
The second reading, flower, sits beside the first. Zehra has held both, blossom and brightness, without either one crowding the other out.
In Poland the name is rare. A girl named Zehra might turn up once on a school class register, her name Hebrew at the root and Turkish by habit, meaning flower and light.
How many people are named Zehra
1 in 247734 women in Poland is named Zehra. 91 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3690 among female names.
Zehra's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Zehra as a middle name
Zehra is a first name for 91 women in Poland and a middle name for another 22, an 81/19 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1553rd, between Yuliia (22) and Zuza (22).
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#1551 Yuliana22
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#1552 Yuliia22
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#1553 Zehra22
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#1554 Zuza22
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#1555 Aileen21