Zaher
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈzeɪɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zaher is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 3.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 41K
- OMOman≈1 in 4.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 177 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
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.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zaher 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #214 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | 1 | Zaher | 19 |
| SY Syria | #478 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 1 | Zaher | 39 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 41K | listed | Zaher | 96 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Zaher | 75 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Zaher | 15 |
| OM Oman | #101 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Zaher | 26 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Zaher | 66 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | — | Zaher | 52 |
| SE Sweden | — | 403 | 1 in 25K | 403 | Zaher | 15 |
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: Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; the wgnd-eg-names register; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Zaher 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 gmh, tear
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zaher Massoudb. 1935FRzoologist
- Zaher Abd El-Rahmanb. 1935EGEgyptian general
- Zahir Al Ghafrib. 1956OMnot in their usual nameOmani writer and poet
- Zaher Birawib. 1961PSPalestinian activist and political organizer (born 1961)
- Zaher Jabarinb. 1968PSPalestinian politician, one of the leaders of Hamas
- Zaher Zorgatib. 1982TNTunisian singer
- Prince Fuad of Egyptb. 2017not in their usual nameEgyptian Royal
- Zaher Rehazactor
- Zaher AbdennabiFRFrench high school headmaster
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
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 56 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 403 | #3,221 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 247 | — |
| SY Syria | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #423 |
| EG Egypt | WGND 2.0 — Egypt given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Zaher?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈzeɪɝ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Zaher a male or female name?
- Zaher 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 Zaher have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.9 thousand people named Zaher in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zaher.
- How common is the name Zaher?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 403 people named Zaher, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Zaher compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Zaher is the 214th most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zaher?
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/zaherThe 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, “Zaher” — the 214th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.