Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Zahari isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2007. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Zahari through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 552
- 255 boys · 297 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 103 babies
- 2025
- 103
- #2,303 for boys · #3,642 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +102%
- Rising fast
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 61 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 2,303 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. It also appeared in 42 birth records for girls in 2025. In 2025, Florida and New York shared the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (7 each).
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Zahari’s family of names
Zahari may belong to the same name family as ZAHARRI. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Zahari
- Zahari ZografBulgarian painter (1810-1853)
- Zahari StoyanovBulgarian writer (1850-1889)
- Zahari Baharovactorborn 1980
- Zahari ZhandovBulgarian film director (1911–1998)
- Zahari SirakovBulgarian footballerborn 1977
- Zahari DimitrovBulgarian footballerborn 1975
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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