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Zyair

#759 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Zaire

Zyair has been given to 3,191 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #759 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 397 recorded.

Babies named Zyair, 2025

1 in 9,750

Zyair over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zyair: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Zaire

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zyair means

Zyair is a variant of Zaire.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Zyair → Zaire. The family’s meaning is “river swallowing rivers”, recorded in the naming reference for Zaire.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zaire.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,049 boys were recorded with the name Zyair between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 397 in 2024; its best national rank was #685 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #964 in 2020 to #759 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,168 in 2015 to #759 in 2025.

In the United States, 142 girls were recorded with the name Zyair between 2001 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2011; its best national rank was #8,189 in 2011.

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 Zyair?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,750
340 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 5,020
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#759
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,760 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zyair 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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,760 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zyair. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zyairs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zyair was born before 2021 — so the typical Zyair is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
66.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,049
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 66.3% of all recorded uses (2,021).

Is Zyair 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
−74
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+205
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,409
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
5.31×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
85.6%
Peak was 2024 (397)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#685
2024

Spellings of Zyair

Zyair is not the most common spelling — Blair is, with 12.0% against Zyair's 2.4%.

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 Zyair is used

Across 2016–2025, Zyair was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 3,125 boys, against 1 in 7,148 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 50,000).

232 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 3,125
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 3,333
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 4,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in 4,348
  5. 5Georgia1 in 4,348
  6. 6Michigan1 in 4,348
  7. 7Indiana1 in 4,545
  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.

Zyair around the world

Where Zyair 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
    2021–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2021–2021
    #2,357
    in 2021

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.

Zyair by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#759
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 205
Best rank ever
#685
2024
Peak year
2024
397 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,049
Count in 2025
340

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,189
2011
Peak year
2011
15 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
142
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Zyair

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

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Names with a curve like Zyair

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

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Sibling names for Zyair

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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