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Zamari vs Zamir

American parents have registered 4,295 Zamirs since 1880, against 2,242 Zamaris. Zamir is still ahead, with 327 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zamari against Zamir, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zamari Zamir

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

Zamir has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1987 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Zamari had 92 and Zamir had 93.

Side by side

  Zamari Zamir
Total US births 2,2424,295
Most in one year 164381
Babies in 2025 158327
Estimated living today 2,2004,300
Median age today 77
Peak year 20212023
Best rank 1,407th boys697th boys
Rank in 2025 1,451st778th
First recorded 19991987
Girls / boys 614 / 1,6280 / 4,295

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

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

Country Zamari Zamir
England and Wales 3145

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: Zamari and Zamir.