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Zuhayr

#8,237 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Zuhayr has been given to 214 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #8,237 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Zuhayr, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zuhayr: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Arabic

What Zuhayr means

Zuhayr is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Zuhayr is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 214 boys were recorded with the name Zuhayr between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2008; its best national rank was #5,761 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,730 in 2020 to #8,237 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 Zuhayr?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,237
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zuhayr 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zuhayr. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zuhayrs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zuhayr was born before 2010 — so the typical Zuhayr is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
42.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
214
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2000s — 42.5% of all recorded uses (91).

Is Zuhayr 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
−2,339
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+493
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
62.5%
Peak was 2008 (16)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,761
2008

Spellings of Zuhayr

Zuhayr is not the most common spelling — Zubair is, with 78.0% against Zuhayr's 22.0%.

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.

Zuhayr around the world

Where Zuhayr 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
    1997–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Zuhayr by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,237
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 493
Best rank ever
#5,761
2008
Peak year
2008
16 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
214
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Zuhayr

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

ZuhairZubayrZuhaibKhayrJayrUzayrUmayrAldayrNayr

Sibling names for Zuhayr

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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