Zâhir
given name · Latin script
Zâhir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Oman it is the 26th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Arabic ظَاهِر (ẓāhir).
- OMOman≈1 in 2.3Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 2.7Kfew records
- XKKosovo≈1 in 3.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zâhir itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Oman, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Zahir in TR Türkiye, US United States, AF Afghanistan and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Arabic ظَاهِر (ẓāhir).
Cited for this meaning 8
- A concise dictionary of first names
- African Muslim Names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zâhir counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 2 | Zahir | 27 |
| IN India | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 82K | 751 | Zahir | 26 |
| AF Afghanistan | #49 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Zahir | 26 |
| DZ Algeria | #462 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | listed | Zahir | 27 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Zahir | 37 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #708 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 82 | Zahir | 27 |
| US United States | — | 2,808 | 1 in 118K | 2.7K | Zahir | 60 |
| OM Oman | #26 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Zahir | 47 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 553 | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 150as Zaheer | 1 in 5K | 150 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zâhir mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic ظَاهِر (ẓāhir). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and African Muslim Names and 6 other sources.
- In which country does Zâhir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Zâhir in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zahir.
- How common is the name Zâhir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,808 people named Zâhir in 2020, about 1 in 118 thousand residents.
- How common is Zâhir compared with other names?
- In Oman, Zâhir is the 26th most common given name of 4,945 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/z%C3%A2hirThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zâhir” — the 26th most common given name in Oman. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.