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Sahil

#2,281 in 2025Boys' name

Coast, shore

Sahil has been given to 3,160 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #2,281 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 144 recorded.

Babies named Sahil, 2025

1 in 53,500

Sahil over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sahil: meaning, origin, and history

Coast, shore

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sahil means

Sahil means “coast, shore”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,160 boys were recorded with the name Sahil between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 144 in 2001; its best national rank was #1,025 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,286 in 2020 to #2,281 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,973 in 2015 to #2,281 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 Sahil?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 53,500
62 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 27,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,281
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
37,064 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sahil 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 37,064 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sahil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sahils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sahil was born before 2006 — so the typical Sahil is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
39.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,160
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 39.9% of all recorded uses (1,260).

Is Sahil 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
+188
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−308
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.84×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.1%
Peak was 2001 (144)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,025
2001

Spellings of Sahil

Sahil is not the most common spelling — Saul is, with 21.8% against Sahil's 1.6%.

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 Sahil is used

Across 2016–2025, Sahil was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 28,219 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 11,111
  2. 2California1 in 16,667
  3. 3Texas1 in 33,333
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

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.

Sahil around the world

Where Sahil 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
    #1,153
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2016
    #707
    in 2016
  • France
    2006–2025
    #1,454
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1990–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Notable people named Sahil

People whose public names include Sahil, 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.

Sahil by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,281
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5
Best rank ever
#1,025
2001
Peak year
2001
144 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,160
Count in 2025
62

Names similar to Sahil

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

SahirSahibAkhilSahajSahidSahasAahilNikhilRahilSahanSahmirSaharshSahelSahalPhilSahejSaheedAhilSahrRushilSahaanSahaadSaahilSahith

Names with a curve like Sahil

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

DaylonKeandreLucCaelanDaylanQuinlanWillemKeionTavionAmanSabastianReilly

Sibling names for Sahil

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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