Zahmir
#2,715 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zahmir has been given to 715 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #2,715 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 73 recorded.
Babies named Zahmir, 2025
1 in 69,100
Zahmir over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Zahmir?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 69,100
- 48 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 35,600
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,715
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 47,874 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zahmir sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 47,874 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zahmir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zahmirs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zahmir was born before 2018 — so the typical Zahmir is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 45.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 98.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 715
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 45.2% of all recorded uses (323).
Is Zahmir 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
- +157
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +168
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,598
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.43×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 65.8%
- Peak was 2023 (73)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.9% average annual change
Spellings of Zahmir
Zahmir is not the most common spelling — Amir is, with 41.7% against Zahmir's 0.53%.
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 Zahmir is used
Across 2016–2025, Zahmir was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 71,076 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
- 2Florida1 in 50,000
- 3Texas1 in 50,000
- 4Virginia1 in 50,000
- 5California1 in 100,000
- 6Georgia1 in 100,000
- 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 8New York1 in 100,000
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.
Zahmir by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zahmir
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zahmir
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.