Zari
Zari was given to 67 girls in 2025, #2,606 among girls’ names; 1,509 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,500 Americans named Zari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zari?
#2,606 among girls’ names, 2025
Zari rose from #3,592 in 2015 to #2,606 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 24.6 to 41.7 per million.
119 babies in 2022, the peak
Zari peaked in 2022, when 119 girls were given it, #1,753 among girls’ names. The 67 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67 | #2,606 | 41.7 |
| 2024 | 77 | #2,388 | 47.5 |
| 2023 | 102 | #1,945 | 63.6 |
| 2022 | 119 | #1,753 | 72.6 |
| 2021 | 81 | #2,285 | 49.4 |
| 2020 | 78 | #2,300 | 48.3 |
| 2019 | 76 | #2,374 | 45.3 |
| 2018 | 79 | #2,332 | 46.4 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,142 | 30.1 |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,521 | 25.4 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #3,592 | 24.6 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,098 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,460 | 26.2 |
| 2012 | 52 | #3,209 | 29.5 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,912 | 22.2 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,393 | 19.1 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,193 | 20.1 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,173 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,562 | 17.2 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,899 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,873 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,760 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,412 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,761 | 14.5 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,557 | 15.0 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,970 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,209 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,234 | 15.3 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,892 | 16.7 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,765 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,211 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,515 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,517 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,502 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,419 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,490 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,509 Americans recorded as Zari, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 67 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Zari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zari, and how old are they?
1,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,509 Americans ever recorded as Zari. The median Zari alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,138 people named Zari (1,079 women and girls, 59 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 992 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Zari rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 120 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 469 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 908 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 67,348 babies since 1880, Zari is the eighth most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 67 of their 3,493 babies (1.9%), again the eighth 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 Zari
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 Zari and names like it
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