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Zaahir

#6,436 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Zaahir has been given to 301 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #6,436 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Zaahir, 2025

1 in 237,000

Zaahir 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zaahir: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zaahir means

Zaahir has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Zaahir

One of the source’s documented entries for Zaahir records a meaning of shining, brilliant, radiant.

One of the source’s documented entries for Zaahir records a meaning of clear, evident, manifest, outward.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 301 boys were recorded with the name Zaahir between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2023; its best national rank was #4,602 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,033 in 2020 to #6,436 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,018 in 2015 to #6,436 in 2025.

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.

How common is Zaahir?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,436
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zaahir 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 2025 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zaahir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zaahirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zaahir was born before 2015 — so the typical Zaahir is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
301
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2010s — 37.2% of all recorded uses (112).

Is Zaahir 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
+381
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,403
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,582
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.9%
Peak was 2023 (23)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,602
2023

Spellings of Zaahir

Zaahir is not the most common spelling — Yahir is, with 31.1% against Zaahir's 0.75%.

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.

Where Zaahir is used

Across 1910–2025, Zaahir was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 705,551 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Zaahir has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zaahir around the world

Where Zaahir 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
    1998–2019
    #4,702
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Zaahir by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,436
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,403
Best rank ever
#4,602
2023
Peak year
2023
23 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
301
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Zaahir

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

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Sibling names for Zaahir

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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