Given name & surname
Zahran
“bright or pure”
Zahran is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “bright or pure.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “bright or pure.”
How it developed
From Arabic زهران (“bright”), from Arabic أَزْهَر (“radiant”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2014. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Zahran through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 80
- 80 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 15
- #6,134 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +8%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 15 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 6,134 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 610 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Zahran’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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