Zamir
Zamir was given to 327 boys in 2025, #780 among boys’ names; 4,295 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,250 Americans named Zamir and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zamir by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zamir mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Zamir is “a male given name from Arabic”
/θaˈmiɾ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zamir?
#780 among boys’ names, 2025
Zamir rose from #1,044 in 2015 to #780 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.10 to 0.19 per 1,000.
381 babies in 2023, the peak
Zamir peaked in 2023, when 381 boys were given it, #698 among boys’ names. The 327 births of 2025 are 86% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 327 | #780 | 0.19 |
| 2024 | 348 | #741 | 0.20 |
| 2023 | 381 | #698 | 0.22 |
| 2022 | 295 | #833 | 0.17 |
| 2021 | 216 | #1,022 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 202 | #1,026 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 201 | #1,033 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 179 | #1,100 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 178 | #1,099 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 176 | #1,115 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 192 | #1,044 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 151 | #1,217 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 129 | #1,336 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 120 | #1,397 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 114 | #1,447 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 93 | #1,676 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 97 | #1,636 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 100 | #1,593 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 99 | #1,592 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 95 | #1,561 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 66 | #1,938 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 70 | #1,799 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 60 | #1,957 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 46 | #2,290 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,112 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,082 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 34 | #2,602 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 42 | #2,195 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,675 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 30 | #2,584 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,272 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,759 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,219 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,910 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,452 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,459 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #6,216 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,449 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zamir a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zamir has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zamir: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zamir, and how old are they?
4,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,295 Americans ever recorded as Zamir. The median Zamir alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 2,234 people named Zamir (48 women and girls, 2,186 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,552 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 149 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,150 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,950 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Zamir born?
The states with the most babies named Zamir are Florida, Texas and Georgia, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 41 | #457 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 41 | #699 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 29 | #406 | 2.1× |
| California | 20 | #1,083 | 0.5× |
| New York | 14 | #948 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 13 | #710 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #741 | 1.9× |
| Michigan | 12 | #678 | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 12 | #578 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 11 | #798 | 0.6× |
Where Zamir is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zamir is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1987 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Zamir with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,422 babies since 1880, Zamir is the most given (67% of them). In 2025 it was given to 327 of their 444 babies (74%), again the 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 Zamir
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 Zamir and names like it
- Compare Zamir and ZahmirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZamir peaked in 2023.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zamir since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Zamir: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Zamir.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zamir alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.