Zahar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: hypo> Zacarías; Smyrna
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zəhɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zahar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 3.2Kas Захар(inferred from the name graph)
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 5.8Kas Захар
- UAUkraine≈1 in 8.3Kas Захар
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 Zahar 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 166 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈44,000 named Захар, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Захар in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more and Zakhar in PL Poland.
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)
hypo> Zacarías; Smyrna
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zahar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #187 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | #70 | Захар | 166 |
| UA Ukraine | #223 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | listed | Захар | 54 |
| PL Poland | — | 3,434as Zakhar | 1 in 11K | 3.4K | Zakhar | 26 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #632 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | 5.4K | Захар | 37 |
| BY Belarus | #203 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | 2 | Захар | 23 |
| MD Moldova | — | 415 | 1 in 8.1K | 415 | Zahar | 3 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); e-services.md — living population register. 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)
Zahar is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In goh, tear (drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, sugar (class of molecules)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, old, aged
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ‘old’
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
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)
- Zakhar Chernyshyovb. 1722RUField Marshal of Russia (1722-1784)
- Zahar Dimitrijevič Olsufjevb. 1772RURussian Lieutenant General
- Zakhar Bronb. 1947RURussian musician
- Zachar Šybiekab. 1948BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian historian
- Zakhar Mayb. 1969UARussian and Ukrainian musician
- Zakhar Prilepinb. 1975RURussian writer and politician (born 1975)
- Zakhar Dubenskyb. 1978RURussian footballer
- Zakhar Yefymenkob. 1985UAUkrainian chess player
- Zakhar Volkovb. 1997BYassociation football player
- Zakhar Navalnyb. 2008RUson of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny
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 47 sources across 28 countries.
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Zahar?
- A machine transcription gives /zəhɑɹ/ (IPA) for Russian.
- What does the name Zahar mean, and where does it come from?
- hypo> Zacarías; Smyrna Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- Is Zahar a male or female name?
- Zahar 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 Zahar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Захар in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Zahar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zahar is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 8.1 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zahar?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 415 people named Zahar, about 1 in 8.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Zahar compared with other names?
- In Russia, Zahar is the 187th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zaharThe 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, “Zahar” — the 187th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.