Zhaire
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- zy-EER
- US rank, 2025
- #7,190 for boys
Zhaire is a boys' name, meaning “river”. In 2025 it ranked 7,190th for boys in the US (11 babies).
What does Zhaire mean?
Variant of Zaire, from Kikongo nzere 'river'
“river”
Zaire was the name of the Congo River and, from 1971 to 1997, of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Is Zhaire a girl's or a boy's name?
Zhaire is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zhaire in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,190th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 11 about 1 in 160,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 27% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 11 boys in the US were named Zhaire, making it the 7,190th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,495th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 42 boys. It first appears in the records in 1997.
2025 had fewer boys named Zhaire than any year since 2015.
Half of all the boys named Zhaire in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 825 boys in the US were given Zhaire or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #402, up from #7,190 for this spelling alone.
Zhaire in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,190 |
| 2024 | 28 | #3,894 |
| 2023 | 24 | #4,339 |
| 2022 | 42 | #2,960 |
| 2021 | 34 | #3,360 |
| 2020 | 31 | #3,495 |
| 2019 | 31 | #3,568 |
| 2018 | 24 | #4,222 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,056 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,721 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,739 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,711 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,763 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,081 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,687 |
| 2008 | 7 | #9,864 |
| 2007 | 6 | #10,915 |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,655 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #10,886 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,385 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,650 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,472 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,259 |
Names like Zhaire
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zyaire, Zahir, Zamir, Zayd, Zayan, Zakai, Zymir, Musa, Kairo, Zayn, Kyaire, Hamza
Other spellings of Zhaire
Names related to Zhaire
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, “Zhaire: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zhaire, updated 20 October 2026.