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Zara is a feminine
given name and a
surname .
It is a common Kurdish female name and a spelling variant of the Arabic female name
Zahra .
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It is also the English form of the name Zaïre , the central character of Voltaire's 1732 play
Zaïre (The Tragedy of Zara)
Its popularity may be influenced by the naming of Princess Anne's daughter
Zara Phillips in 1981, and the Spanish fashion store
Zara .
[2]
Another derivation, unrelated to the above, is the
Bulgarian name Zara (Зара) which is a
diminutive of Zaharina or Zaharinka .
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Notable people with this name
Zara Noor Abbas (a.k.a. Zara Noor Siddiqui; born 1990), Pakistani actress
Zara Abid (1992–2020), Pakistani model
Zara Alvarez (1981-2020), Filipina social activist
Zara Aronson (1864–1944), Sydney-based journalist
Zara Backman (1875–1949), Swedish actress
Dame
Zara Bate (1909–1989), Australian fashion designer, wife of Harold Holt
Zara Bolton (1914-1994), Irish golfer
Zara Cully (1892–1978), American actress
Zara Salim Davidson (born 1973), Malaysian royal
Zara Dampney (born 1986), British volleyball player
Zara Davis (born 1966), English windsurfer
Zara Dawson (born 1983), English actress and television presenter
Zara Dolukhanova (1918–2007), Armenian mezzo-soprano singer
Zara DuPont (1869–1946), American suffragist
Zara Foley (born 2002), Irish footballer
Zara Glover (born 1982), English ten-pin bowler
Zara Holland , British television personality
Zara Hore-Ruthven, Countess of Gowrie (1879–1965), Anglo-Irish wife of the Earl of Gowrie, Governor-General of Australia
Zara Kay (born 1992), secular activist
Zara Larsson (born 1997), Swedish singer
Zara Leghissa (born 1970), Swedish politician
Zara Levina (1906–1976), Ukrainian pianist and composer
Zara Long (born 1970), British swimmer
Zara McDermott (born 1996), British media personality
Zara McFarlane (born 1983), British musician
Zara Mints (1927–1990), Russian-Estonian literary scientist, wife of Yuri Lotman
Zara Mohammed (born ca. 1991), Scottish faith leader
Zara Mullooly (born 2002), British Paralympic swimmer
Zara Nakhimovskaya (born 1934), Latvian chess player
Zara Nelsova (1918–2002), Canadian cellist
Zara Northover (born 1984), Jamaican shot putter
Zara Nutley (1926–2016), British television actress
Zara Peerzada (born 1992), Pakistani model
Zara Rutherford (born 2002), Belgian-British aviator
Zara Schmelen (c. 1793–1831), Southern African translator
Zara Sheikh (born 1982), Pakistani model and Lollywood actress
Zara Steiner (1928–2020), American-born British historian and academic
Zara Tindall (née Phillips; born 1981), daughter of Princess Anne of the United Kingdom
Zara Turner (born ca. 1968), British actress
Zara Whites (born 1968), Dutch television personality, activist and former pornographic actress
Zara A. Wilson (1840–?), American reformer and lawyer
Zara Wright (active 1920), American author based in Chicago
Zara Yaqob (1399–1468), Emperor of Ethiopia (1434–1468)
Zaara Yesmin (born 1997), Indian actress
Zara Zarib , Bangladeshi actor
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"Zara" , Wîkîferheng (in Kurdish), 2020-10-04, retrieved 2023-11-28
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"Zara (2)" . Benind the Name. Retrieved 1 February 2014 .
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