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Baha

Boys' name

Splendor, glory

Baha has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 2008. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2008, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Baha, 2014

1 in 741,000

Baha over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Baha: meaning, origin, and history

Splendor, glory

Arabic

What Baha means

Baha means “splendor, glory”, associated with bahāʔ.

Origin, language, and formation

Baha is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Baha comes through Arabic بَهَاء.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Baha between 2008 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2008; its best national rank was #11,199 in 2008.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Baha?

Baha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 741,000
5 of 3,706,812 births
Among boys only
1 in 384,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Baha sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Baha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bahas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Baha was born before 2008 — so the typical Baha is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Baha rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2008 (6)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,199
2008

Spellings of Baha

Baha is not the most common spelling — Dana is, with 41.8% against Baha's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Baha around the world

Where Baha ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1980–2017
    #4,813
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    2002–2003
    #588
    in 2003

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Baha by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#11,199
2008
Peak year
2008
6 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Baha

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Baha

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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