Tahmid

Boys' name

Praising

Tahmid has been given to 318 babies in the U.S. since 1994. 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 2017, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Tahmid, 2024

1 in 557,000

Tahmid over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tahmid: meaning, origin, and history

Praising

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tahmid means

Tahmid means “praising”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tahmid is used in Arabic and Bengali.

Another recorded pronunciation is /taħ.ˈmiːd/ for Tahmid.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 318 boys were recorded with the name Tahmid between 1994 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2017; its best national rank was #4,573 in 2017.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Tahmid?

Tahmid had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 557,000; 6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 287,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 386,177 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Tahmid 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tahmid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tahmids were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tahmid was born before 2009 — so the typical Tahmid is around 16 today.

Median birth year: 2009; About 16 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 42.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 85.5%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 318; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 42.1% of all recorded uses (134).

Is Tahmid 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: —; 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 2017 (22)
Years since peak: 8; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 24.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,573; 2017

Spellings of Tahmid

Tahmid is not the most common spelling — Ahmad is, with 37.6% against Tahmid's 0.59%.

Ahmad37.6%20,348
Ahmed32.0%17,282
Ahmir7.1%3,814
Jahmir6.9%3,715
Tamir4.4%2,401
Tahir3.7%1,976
Zahid2.1%1,126
Hamid1.7%928

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 Tahmid is used

Across 1910–2025, Tahmid was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 98,695 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 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. Tahmid has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tahmid around the world

Where Tahmid 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
#3,256
in 2025
France
2018–2023
#5,607
in 2023
Canada
2000–2010
#2,676
in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Tahmid by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,573; 2017
Peak year: 2017; 22 that year
First recorded: 1994
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 318
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Tahmid

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

Taheem Tahmir Tahsin Taher Tahari Tahjae Tahir Tahjay Tahji Tahjai Tahjir Hamid Taheim Tahje Taha Tahjee Omid Tahlil Tahj Tahiem Tahron Tahaj Tahmeed Tahlik

Sibling names for Tahmid

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Raylee Aubrielle Harleigh Kinslee Aminah Spencer Adelia Emmeline

For a brother

Brecken Linus Arvin Ramsey Kalvin Ishmael Nixon Kyree

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