girls:
1.3k births since 1990
#4384 (23rd percentile)
boys:
20 births since 2009
#4566 (0th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1990
#6382 (18th percentile)
The name Zari is the #6,382 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,361 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 17.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,384 (23.3% percentile) for all time with 1,341 births since 1990. For boys, it ranks #4,566 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 20 births since 2009.
Zari first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 (1990 for girls and 2009 for boys).
The name Zari has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Zari reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 11.9% percentile (ranked #844) with 66 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 66 births per million (ranked 11.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2006, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Zari ranks #850 for girls (10.3% percentile) with 58 births per million, which is 87.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Zari reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #930) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zari".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Zari is pronounced as ZAH-ree, which has 2 syllables.
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