Zayir
Where Zayir comes from
Zayir hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on 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.
Along the way
- 2011First appearance#12,287 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 2023Peak, #4,22025 babies named Zayir — more than any year before or since.
- 2024The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births — down to #7,765.
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Zayir hasn't yet.
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.