Zari
Feminine · “gold thread”
Zari is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 1,489 girls against 20 boys since 1880.
Zari is gold thread in Persian and Urdu — the metallic embroidery on wedding cloth — from zar, gold.
How old is the name Zari?
Zari first appears in US birth records in 1990 — 35 years ago. The typical Zari is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,500 people named Zari are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Zari most popular?
Zari peaked in 2022, reaching #1742 nationally. Today it ranks #2583, 841 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.
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Where it comes from
From zar to Zari
The story of Zari
Zari embroidery uses fine metal thread and has been worked in Persia and India for centuries; Banarasi saris carry it. The word comes from zar, gold. Separately, American naming built Zari on the Amari rhyme family. Both routes reach American records, where it is in current use.
Meaning
gold thread, brocade
From the Persian zari, gold or silver thread used in embroidery, from zar, 'gold'. The word names a real craft still practiced in India and Iran. A separate Hebrew Zari and an American coinage on the -ari ending also exist. The Persian is documented.
How the name formed
- zar
- zari
- Zari
Related forms: زری · Zari · Zarie
Pronouncing Zari
ZAR-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Persian says za-REE with the stress at the end.
Nicknames for Zari
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1990
- Most girls named
- 2022119 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1742reached in 2022
- Change vs 2024
- −13.0%67 in 2025, from 77
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Zari in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- زری in Persian — transliteration
- Zari in Urdu — same name
- Zarie in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Georgia, Texas, Florida.
Zaris among us
people named Zari are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 23,989 born in 2025 was named Zari
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jacqui test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Zari's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jacqui climbed just as high around 1961, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jacqui's path sketches the road Zari is walking now.
Zari sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Zari is headed
Zari should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Zari beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Zari in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That the name is a still-practiced embroidery craft is a first-rate concrete meaning.
- Zara is available as a near relation with a real record.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- Persian and English stress it differently.
- Some American use is a coinage rather than the Persian.
- Zara and Zari are close enough to confuse.
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Feminine · #2583 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Zaris are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Zari are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Zari in 2025?
- Zari ranks #2583 among US girl names in 2025, with 67 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Zari?
- About 1 in every 23,989 US girls born in 2025 was named Zari — 67 in all.
- Will my child share the name Zari with classmates?
- Zari will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Zari
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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