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Bahar

#4,567 in 2025Girls' name

Spring, through بهار

Bahar has been given to 605 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #4,567 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Bahar, 2025

1 in 111,000

Bahar over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bahar: meaning, origin, and history

Spring, through بهار

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bahar means

Bahar belongs to the name family reached through Bahar → بهار. Its meaning is “spring”.

Origin, language, and formation

Bahar is used in Turkish.

Bahar comes through Persian بهار.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include بهار.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 605 girls were recorded with the name Bahar between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 2024; its best national rank was #4,125 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,898 in 2020 to #4,567 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,998 in 2015 to #4,567 in 2025.

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 Bahar?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 53,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,567
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bahar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bahar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bahars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bahar was born before 2013 — so the typical Bahar is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
605
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Choose a decade

2010s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (178).

Is Bahar 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
−442
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+331
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+431
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.11×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
85.7%
Peak was 2024 (35)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,125
2024

Spellings of Bahar

Bahar is not the most common spelling — Briar is, with 19.7% against Bahar's 1.7%.

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.

Where Bahar is used

Across 1910–2025, Bahar was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 257,884 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in —
  3. 3Virginia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bahar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bahar around the world

Where Bahar 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • France
    1974–2023
    #3,934
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bahar by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,567
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 331
Best rank ever
#4,125
2024
Peak year
2024
35 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
605
Count in 2025
30

Names similar to Bahar

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

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Sibling names for Bahar

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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