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Zaheer

#4,391 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Zahir

Zaheer has been given to 344 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #4,391 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Zaheer, 2025

1 in 138,000

Zaheer over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zaheer: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Zahir

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zaheer means

Zaheer is a alternate transcription of Zahir.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Zaheer → Zahir → ظَاهِر. The family’s meaning is “face”, recorded in Arabic with the source elements ظاهر.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zahir.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 344 boys were recorded with the name Zaheer between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2023; its best national rank was #3,562 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,441 in 2020 to #4,391 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,051 in 2015 to #4,391 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 Zaheer?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 71,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,391
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zaheer 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zaheer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zaheers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zaheer was born before 2017 — so the typical Zaheer is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
41.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
344
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 41.6% of all recorded uses (143).

Is Zaheer 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
+667
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,050
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,660
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
72.7%
Peak was 2023 (33)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
47.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,562
2023

Spellings of Zaheer

Zaheer is not the most common spelling — Zander is, with 42.8% against Zaheer's 0.51%.

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 Zaheer is used

Across 1910–2025, Zaheer was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,365,888 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Zaheer has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zaheer around the world

Where Zaheer 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
    1996–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1983–2002
    #606
    in 2002

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

Zaheer by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,391
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,050
Best rank ever
#3,562
2023
Peak year
2023
33 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
344
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Zaheer

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

ZahariZahmirZahkaiZahairNazeerMuneerZaheemZahranZameerNaseerZahkiZahaviKabeerZaharZahidDameerKaveerZaheenNameerShaheerAhmeerZahmariZahanZahkari

Sibling names for Zaheer

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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