Zhaire
#7,667 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zhaire has been given to 344 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #7,667 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 42 recorded.
Babies named Zhaire, 2025
1 in 301,000
Zhaire 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Zhaire?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 155,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,667
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,901 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zhaire 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zhaire. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zhaires were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zhaire was born before 2019 — so the typical Zhaire is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 49.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 93.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 344
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 49.4% of all recorded uses (170).
Is Zhaire 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
- −3,686
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −4,101
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,889
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.38×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 26.2%
- Peak was 2022 (42)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.5% average annual change
Spellings of Zhaire
Zhaire is not the most common spelling — Zaire is, with 26.3% against Zhaire's 0.95%.
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 Zhaire is used
Across 1910–2025, Zhaire was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,024,020 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Georgia1 in —
- 4Illinois1 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. Zhaire has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Zhaire by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zhaire
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zhaire
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.