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Zamari vs Zamira

American parents have registered 2,242 Zamaris since 1880, against 1,702 Zamiras. But in 2025 it was Zamira that was commoner, 169 babies to 158.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Zamari Zamira

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 37 years in which either name was published, Zamari for 19 years and Zamira for 18 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Zamari Zamira
Total US births 2,2421,702
Most in one year 164169
Babies in 2025 158169
Estimated living today 2,2001,700
Median age today 77
Peak year 20212025
Best rank 1,407th boys1,318th girls
Rank in 2025 1,451st1,318th
First recorded 19991979
Girls / boys 614 / 1,6281,702 / 0

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 Zamira
England and Wales 3127

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 Zamira.