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Zamari vs Zamirah

American parents have registered 2,242 Zamaris since 1880, against 589 Zamirahs. Zamari is still ahead, with 158 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Zamari Zamirah

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

Zamari has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1999 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2002, when Zamari had 17 and Zamirah had 10.

Side by side

  Zamari Zamirah
Total US births 2,242589
Most in one year 16442
Babies in 2025 15839
Estimated living today 2,200590
Median age today 78
Peak year 20212017
Best rank 1,407th boys3,627th girls
Rank in 2025 1,451st3,780th
First recorded 19992002
Girls / boys 614 / 1,628589 / 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Zamari Zamirah
England and Wales 314

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 Zamirah.