Zahir

Where Zahir comes from

Borrowed from Arabic ظَاهِر (ẓāhir), ظٰهِر (ẓāhir). The surname is mostly found in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
— Wiktionary's entry for Zahir
  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1973
    First appearance
    #4,054 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2025
    Peak, #738
    356 babies named Zahir — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic.
Namesakes

No widely known Zahir turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.