Zahir
Last seen for girls in 2007 at #13,924 · #738 for boys in 2025, 356 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 356 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,777since 1973
Zahir over time
Rank among boys' names. Zahir has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #738 | 356 | |
| 2024 | — | #749 | 341 | |
| 2023 | — | #752 | 346 | |
| 2022 | — | #846 | 288 | |
| 2021 | — | #852 | 276 | |
| 2020 | — | #886 | 255 | |
| 2019 | — | #935 | 233 | |
| 2018 | — | #975 | 213 | |
| 2017 | — | #961 | 216 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,102 | 178 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,205 | 153 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,110 | 172 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,269 | 137 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,285 | 136 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,440 | 114 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,256 | 139 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,413 | 119 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,436 | 116 | |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #1,263 | 139 |
| 2006 | — | #1,438 | 108 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,506 | 95 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,701 | 75 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,656 | 75 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,832 | 62 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,871 | 59 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,782 | 61 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,763 | 57 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,552 | 33 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,228 | 38 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,549 | 19 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,693 | 17 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,469 | 19 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,697 | 12 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,872 | 11 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,005 | 14 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,993 | 10 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,229 | 7 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,450 | 10 | |
| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | — | #5,926 | 6 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,698 | 8 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,552 | 8 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,907 | 7 | |
| 1982 | — | #4,593 | 8 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,509 | 8 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
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| 1978 | — | #3,614 | 10 | |
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| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zahir! It came in at #4,054, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1977, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Zahir is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#250 · 1 in 895
- New Jersey#430 · 1 in 2,595
- Maryland#615 · 1 in 3,937
- Georgia#660 · 1 in 4,136
- Pennsylvania#725 · 1 in 5,923
Best ever in a state: #213 in District of Columbia, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| District of Columbia | #250 | 5 | 1 in 895 |
| New Jersey | #430 | 16 | 1 in 2,595 |
| Maryland | #615 | 7 | 1 in 3,937 |
| Georgia | #660 | 13 | 1 in 4,136 |
| Pennsylvania | #725 | 10 | 1 in 5,923 |
| New York | #739 | 18 | 1 in 5,555 |
| Virginia | #863 | 6 | 1 in 6,936 |
| Texas | #950 | 22 | 1 in 8,419 |
| Florida | #1,029 | 11 | 1 in 8,903 |
| North Carolina | #1,118 | 5 | 1 in 10,395 |
| California | #1,278 | 15 | 1 in 14,912 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Zahir
- 11 spots since 2024 (#749 → #738)
- 148 spots since 2020 (#886 → #738)
- 467 spots since 2015 (#1,205 → #738)
- Biggest jump: 141 spots in 2017 (#1,102 → #961)
- Biggest drop: 14 spots in 2018 (#961 → #975)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2025 at #738 (356 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 2017–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,798 boys born in 2025 were named Zahir (0.02%)
- 39.0% of all boys named Zahir (1,862) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 17 | #3,614 (1978) | #3,834 |
| 1980s | 68 | #4,450 (1988) | #5,043 |
| 1990s | 230 | #1,763 (1999) | #3,582 |
| 2000s | 909 | #1,263 (2007) | #1,590 |
| 2010s | 1,691 | #935 (2019) | #1,154 |
| 2020s | 1,862 | #738 (2025) | #804 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Zahir in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 10,661 of them was named Zahir, which outranked 92.2% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).