Zahîr
surname · Latin script
Zahîr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Arabic ظَاهِر (ẓāhir).
- USUnited States1 in 118K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 7.8K
- SESweden1 in 72K
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 Zahîr 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)
2,808 people, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zahir in PK Pakistan, US United States, BD Bangladesh and 1 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 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zahîr 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2,808 | 1 in 118K | 2.7K | Zahir | 92 |
| BD Bangladesh | #895 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 677K | — | Zahir | 58 |
| ES Spain | — | 197 | 1 in 254K | 600 | Zahir | 20 |
| SE Sweden | — | 142 | 1 in 72K | 142 | — | 3 |
| GY Guyana | — | 96 | 1 in 7.8K | 96 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 27 | 1 in 217K | 32 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 25 | 1 in 84K | 26 | — | 1 |
| PK Pakistan | #372 | — | — | — | Zahir | 74 |
2,808 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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 Zahîr 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 Zahîr have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Zahîr, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zahir.
- Where is Zahîr most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zahîr is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 7.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zahîr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,808 people named Zahîr in 2020, about 1 in 118 thousand residents.
- How common is Zahîr compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Zahîr is the 372nd most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zah%C3%AErThe 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, “Zahîr” — the 372nd most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.