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Zahari

#3,641 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Form of Zechariah

Zahari has been given to 552 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #3,641 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 42 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 54% girls, 46% boys all-time.

Babies named Zahari, 2025

1 in 78,900

Zahari over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Zahari over time

In 2025, Zahari went to 41% girls and 59% boys.

20072025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Zahari: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Zechariah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zahari means

Zahari is a form of Zechariah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Zahari → Zechariah. The family’s meaning is “the Lord has remembered”, recorded in English with the source elements zəḵaryā.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zechariah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 297 girls were recorded with the name Zahari between 2007 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 42 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,641 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,660 in 2020 to #3,641 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,256 in 2015 to #3,641 in 2025.

In the United States, 255 boys were recorded with the name Zahari between 2009 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 61 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,303 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,688 in 2020 to #2,303 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,668 in 2015 to #2,303 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Zahari?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 78,900
42 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 38,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,641
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
54,713 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zahari sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 54,713 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zahari. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zaharis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zahari was born before 2020 — so the typical Zahari is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
50.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
297
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 50.8% of all recorded uses (151).

Is Zahari 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
+1,648
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,019
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,615
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.47×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (42)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,641
2025

Spellings of Zahari

Zahari is not the most common spelling — Shari is, with 34.9% against Zahari's 0.25%.

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 Zahari is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Zahari was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 930,302 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —
  2. 2North Carolina1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Zahari has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Zahari is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Zahari was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,264,341 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Virginia1 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. Zahari has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zahari around the world

Where Zahari 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
    2024–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025

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

Zahari by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,641
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,019
Best rank ever
#3,641
2025
Peak year
2025
42 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
297
Count in 2025
42

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,303
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,385
Best rank ever
#2,303
2025
Peak year
2025
61 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
255
Count in 2025
61

Names similar to Zahari

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

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Sibling names for Zahari

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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