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Shahara
How to Pronounce Shahara
Pronounced shuh-HAR-uh /ΚΙΛhΙΛrΙ/Medium
Meaning: Shahara connects to Arabic roots such as sahar, the last darkness before dawn, and shahr, month or moon, and it names a famous cliffside village in Yemen; the dawn sense gives it a luminous, hopeful feel.Low
Popularity in the U.S. Β· SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880βpresent). Pink marker = peak year.
SSA data updated May 2026. How we source & verify this data.
History & Origin
Shahara entered United States records from the late nineteen-fifties, carried by families drawn to its Arabic sound. Its modest high came near nineteen-seventy-eight.
It was never common, given to only a couple dozen girls a year at most, thinning out by the early two-thousands. A girl named Shahara at that peak would be in her late forties today. The name reads as a graceful borrowing rather than a coinage.
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Frequently Asked
What does the name Shahara mean?
It is tied to Arabic roots for dawn and moon, and to the Yemeni village Shahara.
How do you pronounce Shahara?
It is said shuh-HAR-uh /ΚΙΛhΙΛrΙ/, three syllables with the stress in the middle.
Is Shahara a boy or girl name?
Shahara is recorded as a girl's name.
How popular is Shahara?
It has always been very rare, given to only a couple dozen girls a year at its small peak in the nineteen-seventies.