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Tahira

#6,798 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Tahir

Tahira has been given to 1,298 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #6,798 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1975, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Tahira, 2025

1 in 195,000

Tahira over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tahira: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Tahir

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tahira means

Tahira is a feminine form of Tahir.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Tahira → Tahir. The family’s meaning is “pure, virtuous”, recorded in Albanian with the source elements ṭāhir.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tahir.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,298 girls were recorded with the name Tahira between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 43 in 1975; its best national rank was #2,051 in 1975.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,468 in 2020 to #6,798 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,008 in 2015 to #6,798 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 Tahira?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,798
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tahira 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tahira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tahiras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tahira was born before 1996 — so the typical Tahira is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
20.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,298
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Choose a decade

1970s — 20.7% of all recorded uses (269).

Is Tahira 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
−427
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,330
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−790
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.77×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
39.5%
Peak was 1975 (43)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,051
1975

Spellings of Tahira

Tahira is not the most common spelling — Tara is, with 27.5% against Tahira's 0.20%.

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 Tahira is used

Across 1910–2025, Tahira was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 224,219 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 50,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Connecticut1 in —
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 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. Tahira has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tahira around the world

Where Tahira 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
  • Scotland
    1975–1975
    #497
    in 1975
  • France
    1980–2025
    #2,803
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2002–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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.

Tahira by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,798
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,330
Best rank ever
#2,051
1975
Peak year
1975
43 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,298
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Tahira

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

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Sibling names for Tahira

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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