# Zaire (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/zaire/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10,897 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 9,465 / 1,432 (13% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 172, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 33 | 4,463 |
| 2012 | 42 | 3,779 |
| 2013 | 44 | 3,571 |
| 2014 | 39 | 3,922 |
| 2015 | 23 | 5,823 |
| 2016 | 23 | 5,786 |
| 2017 | 33 | 4,382 |
| 2018 | 17 | 7,094 |
| 2019 | 22 | 5,789 |
| 2020 | 12 | 8,938 |
| 2021 | 16 | 7,245 |
| 2022 | 12 | 9,046 |
| 2023 | 19 | 6,401 |
| 2024 | 13 | 8,427 |
| 2025 | 7 | 13,156 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 224 | 905 |
| 2012 | 209 | 967 |
| 2013 | 220 | 930 |
| 2014 | 238 | 905 |
| 2015 | 254 | 879 |
| 2016 | 305 | 781 |
| 2017 | 317 | 747 |
| 2018 | 389 | 657 |
| 2019 | 498 | 561 |
| 2020 | 542 | 528 |
| 2021 | 557 | 529 |
| 2022 | 615 | 496 |
| 2023 | 655 | 466 |
| 2024 | 655 | 471 |
| 2025 | 601 | 503 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | 5,581 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 3 | 2,901 |
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2012 | 4 | 3,987 |
| 2014 | 5 | 3,362 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3,996 |
| 2018 | 9 | 2,259 |
| 2019 | 10 | 2,104 |
| 2020 | 12 | 1,825 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,493 |
| 2022 | 16 | 1,534 |
| 2023 | 27 | 1,071 |
| 2024 | 30 | 1,000 |
| 2025 | 35 | 896 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.