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Mazhar

Boys' name

From Ottoman Turkish مظهر; literal meaning unconfirmed

Mazhar has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2012. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2012, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Mazhar, 2012

1 in 732,000

Mazhar over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mazhar: meaning, origin, and history

From Ottoman Turkish مظهر; literal meaning unconfirmed

Arabic

What Mazhar means

Mazhar is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Mazhar is used in Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Mazhar comes through Ottoman Turkish مظهر and Arabic مَظْهَر.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Mazhar between 2012 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2012; its best national rank was #13,527 in 2012.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mazhar?

Mazhar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,590 births
Among boys only
1 in 379,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,051 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mazhar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mazhar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mazhars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mazhar was born before 2012 — so the typical Mazhar is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Mazhar rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2012 (5)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#13,527
2012

Spellings of Mazhar

Mazhar is not the most common spelling — Mahir is, with 22.9% against Mazhar's 0.07%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Mazhar around the world

Where Mazhar ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2019
    #4,702
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    2003–2003
    #588
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mazhar by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#13,527
2012
Peak year
2012
5 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mazhar

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Mazhar

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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