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Jahir

#1,737 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jahir has been given to 2,842 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #1,737 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 215 recorded.

Babies named Jahir, 2025

1 in 35,300

Jahir over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jahir: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jahir means

Jahir is a given name.

The naming story behind Jahir

Wikidata records Jahir as a given name. The entity identifier is Q60794094, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,842 boys were recorded with the name Jahir between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 215 in 2003; its best national rank was #812 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,804 in 2020 to #1,737 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,859 in 2015 to #1,737 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.

How common is Jahir?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 35,300
94 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 18,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,737
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
24,447 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jahir 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 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 24,447 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jahir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jahirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jahir was born before 2011 — so the typical Jahir is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
39.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,842
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 39.0% of all recorded uses (1,108).

Is Jahir 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
−288
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+67
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+122
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.19×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.7%
Peak was 2003 (215)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#812
2003

Spellings of Jahir

Jahir is not the most common spelling — Javier is, with 23.3% against Jahir's 0.61%.

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 Jahir is used

Across 2016–2025, Jahir was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 15,313 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 8,333
  2. 2Florida1 in 9,091
  3. 3Texas1 in 11,111
  4. 4New York1 in 14,286
  5. 5California1 in 16,667
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 16,667
  7. 7Illinois1 in 20,000
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Jahir around the world

Where Jahir 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
    1997–2010
    #4,678
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Jahir

People whose public names include Jahir, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jahir by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,737
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 67
Best rank ever
#812
2003
Peak year
2003
215 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,842
Count in 2025
94

Names similar to Jahir

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

JahlilJahmirJaheimJahariJahanJahiemJaheemTahirZahirJahsehMahirJahkiMihirJahadJahsirJahiJahkaiJahmariJahleelJahvonJahelJahzielSahirJahsiah

Names with a curve like Jahir

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jahir, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

XavionIshanDevAmaniHadiCanonEwanCianCadenceShaanOmHagen

Sibling names for Jahir

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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