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Zamir

#780 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Zamir has been given to 4,295 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #780 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 381 recorded.

Babies named Zamir, 2025

1 in 10,100

Zamir over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zamir: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Arabic

What Zamir means

Zamir has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Zamir

One of the source’s documented entries for Zamir records a meaning of mind, heart, conscience.

One of the source’s documented entries for Zamir records a meaning of good voice.

Origin, language, and formation

Zamir is used in Albanian and Spanish. Its origins include Arabic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Zamir is pronounced /θaˈmiɾ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,295 boys were recorded with the name Zamir between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 381 in 2023; its best national rank was #698 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,026 in 2020 to #780 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,044 in 2015 to #780 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 Zamir?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,100
327 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 5,220
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#780
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,028 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zamir 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 5005%

Put another way: gather 7,028 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zamir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zamirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zamir was born before 2018 — so the typical Zamir is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
41.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,295
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 41.2% of all recorded uses (1,769).

Is Zamir 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
−39
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+246
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+264
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.70×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
85.8%
Peak was 2023 (381)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#698
2023

Spellings of Zamir

Zamir is not the most common spelling — Jamie is, with 19.5% against Zamir's 0.94%.

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 Zamir is used

Across 2016–2025, Zamir was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 2,174 boys, against 1 in 6,407 across all states with data. It was least common in Kentucky (1 in 33,333).

346 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 2,174
  2. 2Georgia1 in 2,273
  3. 3Maryland1 in 3,030
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 3,030
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 3,704
  6. 6Florida1 in 3,846
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 4,348
  8. 8Illinois1 in 4,762

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.

Geographically, Zamir is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 73% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Zamir around the world

Where Zamir 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
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    1984–2023
    #6,127
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2016–2024
    #2,550
    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.

Notable people named Zamir

People whose public names include Zamir, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Zamir by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#780
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 246
Best rank ever
#698
2023
Peak year
2023
381 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,295
Count in 2025
327

Names similar to Zamir

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

AhmirDamirAamirZamariTamirZamarZymirJamirJahmirTymirSamirEmirDemirRamirKymirNamirYamirCasimirShamirSymirLamirAlmirZamarionNymir

Names with a curve like Zamir

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Zamir, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DakariGatlinKyrenBenicioZaydAriesYahyaAdlerElielAyanOsirisBoaz

Sibling names for Zamir

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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