Zaire — #472 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Zaire

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,859 babies named Zaire between 1974 and 2024, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Zaire currently holds the #472 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 655 babies received it in a single year. Zaire is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,425 additional births since 1975.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Zaire performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 3,020 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Zaire shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,044 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Zaire in 35 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Zaire in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 8,859 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.