Meaning not yet researched.
Sahara: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 98 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,035 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,035 in 2006; #1,978 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sahara in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,978 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #1,035.
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Sahara: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 98 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,035 in 2006 · most girls in one year: 248 (2007).
In 2025, 98 US girls were named Sahara, making it the 1,978th most common girls’ name of the year, down 333 places from #1,645 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 126 girls named Sahara in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,035, reached in 2006. The most girls given the name in a single year was 248, in 2007. For comparison, it was #1,738 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sahara in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 5 babies. In all, 4,734 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,551 babies named Sahara.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,249 US girls were named Sahara; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 143. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,401 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sahara ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #893 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sara (437,441 babies since 1880), Zahra (9,395 babies since 1880), Saira (3,645 babies since 1880) and Zahara (3,609 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Saharra, Saharrah and Sahaira are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Saharra (140), Saharrah (21), Sahaira (17).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Sahara in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 11 | #893 | #1,552 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,328 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,366 | #1,102 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,379 | — |
| New York | 8 | #1,632 | #1,126 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,663 | — |
| California | 11 | #1,925 | #2,288 |
| Florida | 6 | #2,107 | #1,338 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,875 | #2,035 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 98 | #1,978 | — | — |
| 2024 | 126 | #1,645 | — | — |
| 2023 | 123 | #1,688 | — | — |
| 2022 | 133 | #1,598 | — | — |
| 2021 | 133 | #1,582 | — | — |
| 2020 | 143 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 2019 | 142 | #1,525 | — | — |
| 2018 | 121 | #1,716 | — | — |
| 2017 | 127 | #1,694 | — | — |
| 2016 | 103 | #1,952 | — | — |
| 2015 | 121 | #1,738 | — | — |
| 2014 | 111 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 2013 | 126 | #1,683 | — | — |
| 2012 | 144 | #1,537 | — | — |
| 2011 | 180 | #1,310 | — | — |
| 2010 | 172 | #1,361 | — | — |
| 2009 | 169 | #1,403 | — | — |
| 2008 | 201 | #1,255 | — | — |
| 2007 | 248 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 2006 | 248 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 2005 | 200 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 2004 | 101 | #1,880 | — | — |
| 2003 | 83 | #2,121 | 5 | #12,414 |
| 2002 | 96 | #1,863 | — | — |
| 2001 | 92 | #1,899 | — | — |
| 2000 | 108 | #1,645 | — | — |
| 1999 | 110 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 1998 | 94 | #1,704 | — | — |
| 1997 | 81 | #1,842 | — | — |
| 1996 | 72 | #1,974 | — | — |
| 1995 | 80 | #1,799 | — | — |
| 1994 | 76 | #1,888 | — | — |
| 1993 | 63 | #2,145 | — | — |
| 1992 | 70 | #1,979 | — | — |
| 1991 | 50 | #2,510 | — | — |
| 1990 | 48 | #2,514 | — | — |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,562 | — | — |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,521 | — | — |
| 1987 | 39 | #2,606 | — | — |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,114 | — | — |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,221 | — | — |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,808 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,876 | — | — |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,466 | — | — |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,704 | — | — |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,665 | — | — |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,576 | — | — |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,887 | — | — |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,872 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,931 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,770 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,867 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,463 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,305 | — | — |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,899 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,791 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,600 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).