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Zubair

#2,538 in 2025Boys' name

Pieces of iron

Zubair has been given to 757 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #2,538 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 53 recorded.

Babies named Zubair, 2025

1 in 62,600

Zubair over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zubair: meaning, origin, and history

Pieces of iron

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zubair means

Zubair means “pieces of iron”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 757 boys were recorded with the name Zubair between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 53 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,538 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,341 in 2020 to #2,538 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,979 in 2015 to #2,538 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 Zubair?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 62,600
53 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 32,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,538
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
43,358 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zubair 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 43,358 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zubair. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zubairs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zubair was born before 2014 — so the typical Zubair is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
757
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.2% of all recorded uses (244).

Is Zubair 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
+792
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+803
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,441
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.96×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (53)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,538
2025

Spellings of Zubair

Zubair is not the most common spelling — Zyair is, with 53.4% against Zubair's 13.3%.

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 Zubair is used

Across 1910–2025, Zubair was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 523,543 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Zubair has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zubair around the world

Where Zubair 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
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1991–2008
    #638
    in 2008
  • France
    1989–2024
    #6,837
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,105
    in 2024

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

Zubair by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,538
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 803
Best rank ever
#2,538
2025
Peak year
2025
53 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
757
Count in 2025
53

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

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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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