How Many People Are Named Tahir?
people named Tahir are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 176,724 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,976 babies named Tahir in Social Security records from 1972 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
88 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "virtuous, pure, chaste" in Arabic.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Tahir in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Tahir alive today is about 19 years old, and 80% are under 30. Half of them were between 6 and 27 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Tahir first appears in the records in 1972 and was given most often in 2023, to 88 babies. In 2025, 53 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1972 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Tahir has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,683, in 1999. In 2025 it ranked #2,535.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #2,535 |
| Best rank | #1,683 (1999) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,308 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Tahir alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Tahir were born in New York than in any other state: about 296 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Tahir was given 7.1 times as often in Pennsylvania, 5.5 times in New Jersey and 5.3 times in New York.
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