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Tahir

#2,535 in 2025Boys' name

Pure, virtuous

Tahir has been given to 1,976 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #2,535 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 88 recorded.

Babies named Tahir, 2025

1 in 62,600

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tahir: meaning, origin, and history

Pure, virtuous

Arabic

What Tahir means

Tahir means “pure, virtuous”, associated with ṭāhir.

Origin, language, and formation

Tahir is used in Albanian and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Tahir comes through Ottoman Turkish طاهر and Arabic طَاهِر.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,976 boys were recorded with the name Tahir between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 88 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,683 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,497 in 2020 to #2,535 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,803 in 2015 to #2,535 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 Tahir?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 62,600
53 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 32,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,535
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
43,358 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tahir 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 43,358 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tahir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tahirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tahir was born before 2007 — so the typical Tahir is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
25.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,976
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Choose a decade

2000s — 25.9% of all recorded uses (511).

Is Tahir 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
−617
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−38
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+268
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.23×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.2%
Peak was 2023 (88)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,683
1999

Spellings of Tahir

Tahir is not the most common spelling — Amir is, with 24.5% against Tahir's 0.87%.

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 Tahir is used

Across 2016–2025, Tahir was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 26,987 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 50,000).

29 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 11,111
  2. 2Maryland1 in 14,286
  3. 3Florida1 in 16,667
  4. 4Georgia1 in 20,000
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
  6. 6Virginia1 in 33,333
  7. 7California1 in 50,000
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 50,000

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.

Tahir around the world

Where Tahir 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
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1984–1988
    #337
    in 1988
  • France
    1975–2025
    #3,059
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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.

Tahir by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,535
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 38
Best rank ever
#1,683
1999
Peak year
2023
88 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,976
Count in 2025
53

Names similar to Tahir

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

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Sibling names for Tahir

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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