Zair is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Zaire, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Zair: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 51 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,603 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Zair in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,603 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Zair: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 51 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,603 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 51 (2025).
In 2025, 51 US boys were named Zair, making it the 2,603rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 145 places from #2,748 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 48 boys named Zair in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,603, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 51. For comparison, it was #4,708 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zair in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1999 with 12 babies. In all, 652 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 264 babies named Zair.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 346 US boys were named Zair; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 51. In 2025 that was about 1 in 33,492 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zair ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #2,099 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zaire (10,897 babies since 1880) and Zahir (4,784 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 Zair 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 5 | #2,099 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 51 | #2,603 |
| 2024 | — | — | 48 | #2,748 |
| 2023 | — | — | 31 | #3,708 |
| 2022 | — | — | 25 | #4,297 |
| 2021 | — | — | 34 | #3,425 |
| 2020 | — | — | 32 | #3,494 |
| 2019 | — | — | 24 | #4,333 |
| 2018 | — | — | 33 | #3,443 |
| 2017 | — | — | 33 | #3,439 |
| 2016 | — | — | 35 | #3,292 |
| 2015 | — | — | 21 | #4,708 |
| 2014 | — | — | 25 | #4,135 |
| 2013 | — | — | 23 | #4,309 |
| 2012 | — | — | 18 | #5,250 |
| 2011 | — | — | 22 | #4,506 |
| 2010 | — | — | 30 | #3,629 |
| 2009 | — | — | 24 | #4,273 |
| 2008 | — | — | 30 | #3,645 |
| 2007 | — | — | 26 | #4,007 |
| 2006 | — | — | 12 | #6,900 |
| 2005 | — | — | 15 | #5,575 |
| 2004 | — | — | 8 | #8,917 |
| 2003 | — | — | 11 | #6,711 |
| 2002 | — | — | 13 | #5,721 |
| 2001 | — | — | 10 | #6,925 |
| 2000 | — | — | 6 | #10,329 |
| 1999 | — | — | 12 | #5,652 |
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).