Zahar
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- zah-HAR
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #8,239 for boys
Zahar is a boys' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
Where does Zahar come from?
Arabic: possibly Arabic zahr 'blossom'; also a Slavic spelling of Zakhar (Zechariah)
Is Zahar a girl's or a boy's name?
Zahar is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zahar in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,239th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 190,000 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, 9 boys in the US were named Zahar, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 12 boys. It first appears in the records in 2012.
Half of all the boys named Zahar in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zahar in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,760 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,250 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,762 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,084 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,497 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,772 |
| 2018 | 6 | #10,754 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,691 |
| 2016 | 6 | #10,739 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,739 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,124 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,267 |
Names like Zahar
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zahir, Zayd, Zamir, Zayan, Zubair, Umar, Zayaan, Ahmir, Hamza, Zayyan, Ziyad, Musab
Names related to Zahar
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, “Zahar: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zahar, updated 20 October 2026.