Zahari is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Zachary, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Zahari: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 61 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,303 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 59% of babies named Zahari in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,303 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Zahari: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 61 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,303 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 61 (2025).
In 2025, 61 US boys were named Zahari, making it the 2,303rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,392 places from #4,695 in 2024. That is 39 more than the 22 boys named Zahari in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,303, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 61. For comparison, it was #6,673 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 42 US girls were named Zahari, making it the 3,642nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,650 places from #5,292 in 2024. That is 17 more than the 25 girls named Zahari in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,642, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 42. For comparison, it was #7,259 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zahari in 19 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2007 with 6 babies. In all, 552 US babies have been given the name, 54% of them girls and 46% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 309 babies named Zahari.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 196 US boys were named Zahari; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 61. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,001 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zahari ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #1,248 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zachary (553,281 babies since 1880), Zari (1,509 babies since 1880) and Zahria (979 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Zahari in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 5 | #1,248 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,549 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,570 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,622 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #3,642 | 61 | #2,303 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,292 | 22 | #4,695 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,236 | 17 | #5,659 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,970 | 25 | #4,295 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,716 | 17 | #5,555 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,664 | 16 | #5,692 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,691 | 13 | #6,764 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,601 | 12 | #7,124 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,767 | — | — |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,379 | 13 | #6,714 |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,259 | 13 | #6,673 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,293 | 9 | #8,767 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,362 | 10 | #8,101 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,698 | 7 | #10,747 |
| 2011 | — | — | 5 | #14,306 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,214 | 10 | #8,121 |
| 2009 | — | — | 5 | #14,489 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,452 | — | — |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,588 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).