Bahati

#11,087 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Fortune, luck

Bahati has been given to 90 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #11,087 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% girls, 11% boys all-time.

Babies named Bahati, 2025

1 in 414,000

Bahati over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Bahati over time

In 2025, Bahati went to 62% girls and 38% boys.

19752025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Bahati: meaning, origin, and history

Fortune, luck

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bahati means

Bahati means “fortune, luck”, associated with bahati.

Origin, language, and formation

Bahati is used in Swahili.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 80 girls were recorded with the name Bahati between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2024; its best national rank was #8,527 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,244 in 2020 to #11,087 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Bahati between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2024; its best national rank was #12,263 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 Bahati?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 414,000; 8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 201,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #11,087; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 287,238 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Bahati 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bahati. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bahatis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bahati was born before 2020 — so the typical Bahati is around 5 today.

Median birth year: 2020; About 5 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 57.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 86.3%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 80; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 57.5% of all recorded uses (46).

Is Bahati 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: −2,560; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: +157; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 66.7%; Peak was 2024 (12)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 36.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,527; 2024

Spellings of Bahati

Bahati is not the most common spelling — Tahani is, with 52.1% against Bahati's 5.6%.

Tahani52.1%745
Bahar42.3%605
Bahati5.6%80

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.

Bahati around the world

Where Bahati 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
2001–2025
#3,057
in 2025
Canada
2020–2020
#3,347
in 2020

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Bahati by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #11,087
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 157
Best rank ever: #8,527; 2024
Peak year: 2024; 12 that year
First recorded: 1975
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 80
Count in 2025: 8

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #12,263
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #12,263; 2025
Peak year: 2024; 5 that year
First recorded: 2024
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 10
Count in 2025: 5

Names similar to Bahati

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

Mahati Bahja Behati Mati Niyati Bahar Bahiya Bahareh Parvati Bahia Pranati Itati Sati Khyati Trinati Bahiyah Cati Baheejah Arati Swati Revati Nanati Bahiyyah Pragati

Sibling names for Bahati

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

For a sister

Annabell Abagail Leonor Sydnie Karleigh Sydni Rhianna Alysa

For a brother

Aaden Kale Evans Hamilton Caesar Tobin Jerimiah Jorden

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