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Zoravar

Gender
Boy
Say it
ZOR-a-var
Origin
Persian
UK rank, 2025
#1,537 for boys
US rank, 2025
#5,606 for boys

Zoravar is a boys' name of Persian origin, meaning “powerful, strong”. In 2025 it ranked 1,537th for boys in the UK (18 babies) and 5,606th for boys in the US (16 babies).

What does Zoravar mean?

Persian: spelling of Zorawar, via Punjabi

“powerful, strong”

A spelling of Zorawar, from Persian zor, strength; General Zorawar Singh led 19th-century campaigns into Ladakh.

Is Zoravar a girl's or a boy's name?

Zoravar is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 boys in the UK and 16 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Zoravar in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#1,537among boys
Babies in 2025
18about 1 in 17,000 boys
Five-year trend
Risingup 84% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 18 boys in the UK were named Zoravar, making it the 1,537th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,052nd.

2025 had the most boys named Zoravar of any year since it first appeared, in 2008.

Half of all the boys named Zoravar in the UK since 1996 were born between 2017 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 145 boys in the UK were given Zoravar or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #350, up from #1,537 for this spelling alone.

Among boys in 2025, it was 1,465th in England and Wales.

2008Busiest: 18 in 20252025
Zoravar in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
202518#1,537
202414#1,825
202314#1,812
20229#2,457
20219#2,434
202011#2,052
20195#3,597
20189#2,388
20178#2,656
201613#1,909
20155#3,527
20140–
20133#4,884
20125#3,572
20110–
20100–
20093#4,691
20083#4,615

How popular is Zoravar in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,606among boys
Babies in 2025
16about 1 in 110,000 boys
Five-year trend
Risingup 46% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 16 boys in the US were named Zoravar, making it the 5,606th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,695th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 22 boys. It first appears in the records in 2009.

Half of all the boys named Zoravar in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 99 boys in the US were given Zoravar or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,493, up from #5,606 for this spelling alone.

2009Busiest: 22 in 20242025
Zoravar in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202516#5,606
202422#4,567
202319#5,070
202215#5,870
202113#6,330
202015#5,695
201915#5,808
20189#8,150
201711#7,091
20160–
201510#7,486
20140–
20130–
20120–
20110–
20100–
20096#10,989

Names like Zoravar

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Zoravar

More Persian names

Every Persian name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Zoravar: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zoravar, updated 20 October 2026.