Zahir
Where Zahir comes from
Borrowed from Arabic ظَاهِر (ẓāhir), ظٰهِر (ẓāhir). The surname is mostly found in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- Arabic
Zahir through the years
- 1973First appearance#4,054 among boys with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
- 2025Peak, #738356 babies named Zahir, the most in any year.
In the dictionary
- A male given name from Arabic.
Namesakes
No widely recognized namesakes for Zahir in Wikidata.
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.