Meaning not yet researched.
Zaire: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 601 in 2025. Its best rank was #466 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #466 in 2023; #503 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Zaire in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#503 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #466.
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Zaire: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 601 boys in 2025. Peak: #466 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 655 (2024).
In 2025, 601 US boys were named Zaire, making it the 503rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 32 places from #471 in 2024. That is 54 fewer than the 655 boys named Zaire in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #466, reached in 2023. The most boys given the name in a single year was 655, in 2024. For comparison, it was #879 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Zaire, making it the 13,156th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,729 places from #8,427 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 13 girls named Zaire in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,926, reached in 1997. The most girls given the name in a single year was 83, in 2000. For comparison, it was #5,823 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zaire in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 7 babies. In all, 10,897 US babies have been given the name, 13% of them girls and 87% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 3,704 babies named Zaire.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,134 US boys were named Zaire; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 655. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,842 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zaire ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #222 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zahir (4,784 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zair, Sayre and Sair are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Zair (652), Sayre (192), Sair (172), Zayir (119), Saire (74), Sare (63), Zaier (45), Zaaire (25), Zahire (23), Zahaire (19), Zayaire (12), Zaair (12), and more.
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 Zaire 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 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 56 | #222 | #540 |
| Mississippi | 14 | #238 | — |
| Connecticut | 10 | #325 | — |
| Massachusetts | 17 | #334 | #711 |
| Florida | 53 | #372 | #969 |
| Louisiana | 14 | #374 | — |
| Maryland | 14 | #388 | #579 |
| Tennessee | 20 | #409 | — |
| Indiana | 18 | #411 | #895 |
| New York | 42 | #418 | #535 |
| South Carolina | 12 | #436 | #757 |
| North Carolina | 24 | #458 | #561 |
| Alabama | 11 | #483 | — |
| Virginia | 16 | #495 | #619 |
| Texas | 67 | #509 | #1,641 |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #522 | #761 |
| Missouri | 11 | #558 | — |
| Illinois | 17 | #567 | #600 |
| California | 50 | #600 | #1,013 |
| Michigan | 14 | #600 | #668 |
| Nevada | 5 | #601 | — |
| Arizona | 11 | #632 | #725 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #633 | — |
| Minnesota | 8 | #638 | — |
| Ohio | 15 | #649 | #778 |
| Colorado | 8 | #679 | — |
| Oregon | 5 | #706 | — |
| Washington | 9 | #736 | — |
| New Jersey | 9 | #761 | #710 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #790 | #706 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #13,156 | 601 | #503 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,427 | 655 | #471 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,401 | 655 | #466 |
| 2022 | 12 | #9,046 | 615 | #496 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,245 | 557 | #529 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,938 | 542 | #528 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,789 | 498 | #561 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,094 | 389 | #657 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,382 | 317 | #747 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,786 | 305 | #781 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,823 | 254 | #879 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,922 | 238 | #905 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,571 | 220 | #930 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,779 | 209 | #967 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,463 | 224 | #905 |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,358 | 222 | #913 |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,457 | 238 | #887 |
| 2008 | 58 | #3,015 | 257 | #845 |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,095 | 268 | #803 |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,939 | 248 | #821 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,585 | 211 | #873 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,849 | 173 | #970 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,185 | 205 | #848 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,817 | 182 | #894 |
| 2001 | 60 | #2,570 | 140 | #1,048 |
| 2000 | 83 | #2,015 | 203 | #798 |
| 1999 | 81 | #1,961 | 180 | #843 |
| 1998 | 68 | #2,145 | 116 | #1,113 |
| 1997 | 76 | #1,926 | 128 | #1,005 |
| 1996 | 64 | #2,150 | 85 | #1,302 |
| 1995 | 50 | #2,549 | 63 | #1,526 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,446 | 61 | #1,542 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,825 | 28 | #2,640 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,649 | 31 | #2,410 |
| 1991 | — | — | 21 | #3,104 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,493 | 19 | #3,308 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,156 | 8 | #6,222 |
| 1988 | — | — | 10 | #4,783 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,248 | — | — |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,130 | 5 | #7,818 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #6,234 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #7,362 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #7,280 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #7,286 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,962 | 10 | #4,065 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,465 | 10 | #3,855 |
| 1977 | — | — | 13 | #3,201 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,582 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,979 | 17 | #2,539 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,629 |
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).