Zaire

Where Zaire comes from

Zaire hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1974
    First appearance
    #4,190 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1990
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1996
    Zaire Franklin born
    American football linebacker
  4. 1999
    Zaire Barnes born
    American football linebcaker
  5. 2023
    Peak, #466
    655 babies named Zaire — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Zaire Franklin · American football linebacker, born 1996
  • Zaire Barnes · American football linebcaker, born 1999

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.