Zaheer
Zaheer was given to 24 boys in 2025, #4,391 among boys’ names; 344 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zaheer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zaheer?
#4,391 among boys’ names, 2025
Zaheer rose from #7,051 in 2015 to #4,391 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.3 to 14.1 per million.
33 babies in 2023, the peak
Zaheer peaked in 2023, when 33 boys were given it, #3,562 among boys’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #4,391 | 14.1 |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,058 | 11.6 |
| 2023 | 33 | #3,562 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,562 | 13.2 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,112 | 14.9 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,441 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 5 | #14,078 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,532 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,667 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,590 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #7,051 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,541 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,634 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,289 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,989 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 6 | #12,185 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 6 | #12,458 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 6 | #12,515 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 6 | #12,334 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,711 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #13,336 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,519 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,619 | 4.0 |
| 2001 | 7 | #9,222 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,889 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,458 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,605 | 4.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,753 | 3.6 |
| 1991 | 6 | #8,217 | 3.0 |
| 1989 | 5 | #9,218 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zaheer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zaheer has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zaheer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zaheer, and how old are they?
An estimated 340 Americans named Zaheer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 742 people named Zaheer (7 women and girls, 735 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 203 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,349 babies since 1880, Zaheer is the second most given (6.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 397 babies (6.0%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zaheer
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Zaheer and names like it
- Compare Zaheer and ZahirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZaheer peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zaheer since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Zaheer.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zaheer alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.