Zhir
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒɪɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zhir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 351K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 638K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)
16 people
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zhir 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.
16 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Zhir is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, "wealth."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16 | #27,545 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 13 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Zhir?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒɪɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Zhir a male or female name?
- Zhir is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Zhir have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 16 people named Zhir, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Zhir most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zhir is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 351 thousand people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zhir?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 16 people named Zhir, about 1 in 638 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Zhir?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zhirThe 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, “Zhir”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.