Zohra
Fewer than thirty women in Poland carry this name, so most Poles have never met one. It comes from Hebrew, where it means flower or blossom.
Zohra Pronunciation
Zohra is pronounced ZOKH-rah (/ˈzɔxra/).
What Zohra means
Where Zohra comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zohra rises from a Hebrew root tied to brightness and shining, the root that also gives the word zohar. When the name moved into Arabic use it became Zahra, and there it gained the sense of flower and blossom. Both meanings sit in the one name.
History gives it a well-known bearer. Fatima az-Zahra, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, was called az-Zahra, the blossom, an epithet Muslim tradition has repeated for centuries. So the flower reading is old and documented.
In Polish the name lands as kwiat and piękno, flower and beauty. A girl named Zohra on a Polish class register stands a little apart from the Zuzannas and the Zofias, and Zofia shares nothing of her root. What the two readings agree on is plain. Zohra means blossom.
How many people are named Zohra
1 in 834957 women in Poland is named Zohra. 27 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8204 among female names.
Zohra's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Zohra as a middle name
Zohra is a first name for 27 women in Poland and a middle name for another 26, a 51/49 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1413th, between Yaneth (26) and Amara (25).
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#1411 Wilma26
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#1412 Yaneth26
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#1413 Zohra26
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#1414 Amara25
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#1415 Angelique25