Zahair
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- zah-HAIR
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #8,906 for boys
Zahair is a boys' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,906th for boys in the US (8 babies).
What does Zahair mean?
Arabic: probably a variant of Zahir or Zuhair
Zahir means 'shining' or 'evident' and Zuhair 'little flower', so the intended sense varies.
Is Zahair a girl's or a boy's name?
Zahair is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zahair in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,906th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 210,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 8 boys in the US were named Zahair, making it the 8,906th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,976th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 26 boys. It first appears in the records in 2006.
Half of all the boys named Zahair in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zahair in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,906 |
| 2024 | 6 | #10,930 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,892 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,141 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,007 |
| 2020 | 14 | #5,976 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,750 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,180 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,080 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,280 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 7 | #9,579 |
Names like Zahair
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zahir, Zubair, Zayd, Zamir, Zayan, Zair, Ahmir, Zayaan, Hamza, Zayyan, Ziyad, Musa
Names related to Zahair
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Zahair: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zahair, updated 20 October 2026.