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Zuberi

Boys' name

From Arabic الزُّبَيْر; literal meaning unconfirmed

Zuberi has been given to 24 babies in the U.S. since 1977. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1977, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Zuberi, 2022

1 in 677,000

Zuberi over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zuberi: meaning, origin, and history

From Arabic الزُّبَيْر; literal meaning unconfirmed

Arabic

What Zuberi means

Zuberi is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Zuberi is used in Swahili. Its origins include Arabic.

Zuberi comes through Arabic الزُّبَيْر.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 24 boys were recorded with the name Zuberi between 1977 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1977; its best national rank was #5,120 in 1977.

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 Zuberi?

Zuberi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zuberi 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zuberi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zuberis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zuberi was born before 1994 — so the typical Zuberi is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
24
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (12).

Is Zuberi 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (7)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,120
1977

Spellings of Zuberi

Zuberi is not the most common spelling — Hubert is, with 97.8% against Zuberi's 0.04%.

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.

Zuberi around the world

Where Zuberi 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.

  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Zuberi by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,120
1977
Peak year
1977
7 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
24
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Zuberi

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

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Sibling names for Zuberi

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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