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Zakhar

#6,791 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Russian and Ukrainian origin

Zakhar has been given to 66 babies in the U.S. since 2011. In 2025 it ranked #6,791 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Zakhar, 2025

1 in 255,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zakhar: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Russian and Ukrainian origin

Russian and Ukrainian

What Zakhar means

Zakhar is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Russian and Ukrainian Заха́р (Zaxár). Doublet of Zachary.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Zakhar (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Zakhar is used in English. Its origins include Russian and Ukrainian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zachary.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 66 boys were recorded with the name Zakhar between 2011 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2024; its best national rank was #6,791 in 2025.

How common is Zakhar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,791
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zakhar 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zakhar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zakhars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zakhar was born before 2023 — so the typical Zakhar is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
63.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
66
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 63.6% of all recorded uses (42).

Is Zakhar 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
+28
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2024 (13)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,791
2025

Spellings of Zakhar

Zakhar is not the most common spelling — Zachary is, with 95.8% against Zakhar's 0.01%.

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.

Zakhar around the world

Where Zakhar 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
    2020–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    2020–2022
    #5,896
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Zakhar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,791
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,791
2025
Peak year
2024
13 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
66
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Zakhar

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

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Sibling names for Zakhar

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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