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Zahi

#13,876 in 2025Boys' name

Beautiful, brilliant

Zahi has been given to 115 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #13,876 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Zahi, 2025

1 in 663,000

Zahi over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zahi: meaning, origin, and history

Beautiful, brilliant

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zahi means

Zahi means “beautiful, brilliant”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Zahi is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈzaː.hiː/ for Zahi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 115 boys were recorded with the name Zahi between 2006 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2023; its best national rank was #6,497 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,531 in 2020 to #13,876 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #14,006 in 2015 to #13,876 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 Zahi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,876
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zahi 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zahi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zahis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zahi was born before 2016 — so the typical Zahi is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
53.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
115
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 53.0% of all recorded uses (61).

Is Zahi 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,345
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+130
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.7%
Peak was 2023 (14)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,497
2023

Spellings of Zahi

Zahi is not the most common spelling — Kai is, with 19.7% against Zahi's 0.03%.

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.

Zahi around the world

Where Zahi 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
    2005–2023
    #3,524
    in 2023
  • France
    2020–2021
    #5,397
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2001–2001
    #581
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Zahi by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,876
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,345
Best rank ever
#6,497
2023
Peak year
2023
14 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
115
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Zahi

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

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Sibling names for Zahi

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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