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Tahirih

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Persian origin

Tahirih has been given to 95 babies in the U.S. since 1967. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1970, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Tahirih, 2020

1 in 557,000

Tahirih over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tahirih: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Persian origin

Persian

What Tahirih means

Tahirih is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Tahirih is used in English. Its origins include Persian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 95 girls were recorded with the name Tahirih between 1967 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1970; its best national rank was #5,760 in 1970.

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 Tahirih?

Tahirih had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 269,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,120 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tahirih 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 2020 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 386,120 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tahirih. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tahirihs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tahirih was born before 1974 — so the typical Tahirih is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
51.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
95
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 51.6% of all recorded uses (49).

Is Tahirih 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1970 (9)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,760
1970

Spellings of Tahirih

Tahirih is not the most common spelling — Tahira is, with 44.2% against Tahirih's 3.2%.

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.

Tahirih around the world

Where Tahirih 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.

  • South Australia
    1985–1985
    #671
    in 1985

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tahirih by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,760
1970
Peak year
1970
9 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
95
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tahirih

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

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Sibling names for Tahirih

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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