Zair

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Biblical name

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/saiɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Zair is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 304K(measured from records)
  • TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 2.2Kas Zaýir
  • KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 11K

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 Zair 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)

5,857 named Zaire, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
50 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Kyrgyzstan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ZairLatin(measured from records)
ЗаірCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Zaýir in TM Turkmenistan.

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)

Biblical name

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zair 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.

Where Zair is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—5,857as Zaire1 in 57K4.7KZair47
TM Turkmenistan#398≈2,500 est.≈1 in 2.2K—Zaýir6
BR Brazil—6971 in 304K936Zair42
UZ Uzbekistan—≈650 est.≈1 in 47K—Zair6
KG Kyrgyzstan—≈560 est.≈1 in 11K—Zair9
AZ Azerbaijan—≈210 est.≈1 in 48K4Zair7
XK Kosovo—≈100 est.≈1 in 19K59——

5,857 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling zaire. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Zair is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Zaïr, Žàïr, Zàir, Zaîr

  • English given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Peru, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Zàîr, Zàír, Zaïr

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Zaïr

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Zair 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 Serbo-Croatian, Zaire (former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a country in Central Africa; used from 1971–1997)

    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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Zair,Hi Zair, (English)

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 44 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Zair
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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

What does the name Zair mean, and where does it come from?
Biblical name Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
How do you pronounce Zair?
A machine transcription gives /saiɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Zair a male or female name?
Zair is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Zair have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 5.9 thousand people named Zaire, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Zair?
In Brazil, the national register counted 697 people named Zair in 2022, about 1 in 304 thousand residents.
How common is Zair compared with other names?
In Turkmenistan, Zair is the 398th most common given name of 38,989 given names recorded there.

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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, “Zair” — the 398th most common given name in Turkmenistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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