Zahir

What Zahir means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Zahir yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 7 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Zahir?

US: Rising: up from #1205 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #2150 in 2015, #2014 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 356 boys got the name (#738 that year). First in the US records in 1973.

How common

• About 1 in 4,798 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 22,661 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in CT (0.76 per 1,000 boys), GA (0.48 per 1,000 boys), MA (0.48 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Zahir is #738 in the US and #2014 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Zahir were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Sahir43 US · 4 E&W
• Zaheer24 US · 7 E&W
• Zyheir29 US
• Zyhir24 US
• Syhir22 US
• Zuhair16 US · 3 E&W
• Zaahir14 US
• Zohar14 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Zahir

Boys

• Zaid#675Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1969, with 5 babies
• Zayd#632Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #181 vs #632 in 2025
• Amir#105“commander, prince”^*
• Laith#893Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #254 vs #893 in 2025
• Hamza#541“lion”^*
• Ibrahim#351Editor’s note Up from #436 in 2015 to #351 in 2025 in the US

For a sister

• Amira#132“princess”^*
• Amirah#490Variant of Amira, meaning “princess”^*
• Noor#659“light”^*
• Maryam#351Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #52 vs #351 in 2025
• Leyla#611Editor’s note Up from #782 in 2015 to #611 in 2025 in the US
• Zahra#538Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 8 babies

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Arabic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Zahir’s. Rank is US 2025.