Given name & surname · also Czech
Zar
Zar is a surname from Czech, ultimately from Arabic.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Zar comes from Czech, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2019. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Zar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 6 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 249 as a first name in 2020; 760 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Zar’s family of names
In German usage, Zar as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Kaiser. In Greek usage, Zar as a surname is a transliteration of Ζαρ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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