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Zamar vs Zamari

American parents have registered 2,242 Zamaris since 1880, against 624 Zamars. Zamari is still ahead, with 158 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zamar against Zamari, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zamar Zamari

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 30 years in which either name was published, Zamari for 25 years and Zamar for 5 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Zamar Zamari
Total US births 6242,242
Most in one year 42164
Babies in 2025 24158
Estimated living today 6202,200
Median age today 117
Peak year 20232021
Best rank 3,293rd boys1,407th boys
Rank in 2025 4,249th1,451st
First recorded 19901999
Girls / boys 6 / 618614 / 1,628

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Zamars alive today are over 11; half the Zamaris are over 7. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Zamar Zamari
England and Wales 1331

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Zamar and Zamari.