In 2025, 94 US boys were named Jahir, making it the 1,737th most common boys’ name of the year, down 288 places from #1,449 in 2024. That is 31 fewer than the 125 boys named Jahir in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #813, reached in 2003. That year also had the most boys given the name: 215. For comparison, it was #1,859 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jahir in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 5 babies. In all, 2,842 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,108 babies named Jahir.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,031 US boys were named Jahir; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 125. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,171 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jahir ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #815 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jair (7,269 babies since 1880) and Jaire (1,277 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jahaire, Jahare and Jaheer are summarised on this page.