Alzira

Alzira found its highest degree of popularity in the mid-nineteenth century after Giuseppe Verdi created an opera of the name Alzira, after its romantic heroine. Despite Verdi using the name for a Peruvian princess, Alzira is an arabic name Verdi's opera, despite the name's arabic roots, the name was given to a Peruvian princess. Alzira is also the name of a Spanish city in Valencia.

Pronounced al-ZEER-uh.

As of October 2026, Alzira ranked #3881 in US births in 1926 SSA, peaked at #3675 in 1925.