Meaning not yet researched.
Sahil: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 62 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,026 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,026 in 2001; #2,281 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sahil in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,281 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #1,026.
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Sahil: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 62 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,026 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 144 (2001).
In 2025, 62 US boys were named Sahil, making it the 2,281st most common boys’ name of the year, up 188 places from #2,469 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 56 boys named Sahil in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,026, reached in 2001. That year also had the most boys given the name: 144. For comparison, it was #1,973 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sahil in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 7 babies. In all, 3,160 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,260 babies named Sahil.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 641 US boys were named Sahil; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 72. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,550 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sahil ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,565 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Saul (43,362 babies since 1880) and Sal (3,663 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Saahil, Zahel and Zahil 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: Saahil (382), Zahel (12), Zahil (5).
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 Sahil in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,565 | #1,433 |
| Texas | 5 | #2,885 | #2,672 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 62 | #2,281 |
| 2024 | — | — | 56 | #2,469 |
| 2023 | — | — | 68 | #2,145 |
| 2022 | — | — | 70 | #2,128 |
| 2021 | — | — | 59 | #2,345 |
| 2020 | — | — | 60 | #2,287 |
| 2019 | — | — | 58 | #2,358 |
| 2018 | — | — | 72 | #2,025 |
| 2017 | — | — | 67 | #2,086 |
| 2016 | — | — | 69 | #2,064 |
| 2015 | — | — | 74 | #1,973 |
| 2014 | — | — | 72 | #1,994 |
| 2013 | — | — | 82 | #1,778 |
| 2012 | — | — | 82 | #1,812 |
| 2011 | — | — | 88 | #1,701 |
| 2010 | — | — | 100 | #1,587 |
| 2009 | — | — | 112 | #1,495 |
| 2008 | — | — | 118 | #1,427 |
| 2007 | — | — | 106 | #1,506 |
| 2006 | — | — | 126 | #1,315 |
| 2005 | — | — | 135 | #1,188 |
| 2004 | — | — | 141 | #1,126 |
| 2003 | — | — | 124 | #1,196 |
| 2002 | — | — | 133 | #1,106 |
| 2001 | — | — | 144 | #1,026 |
| 2000 | — | — | 121 | #1,150 |
| 1999 | — | — | 133 | #1,046 |
| 1998 | — | — | 125 | #1,063 |
| 1997 | — | — | 103 | #1,176 |
| 1996 | — | — | 69 | #1,476 |
| 1995 | — | — | 52 | #1,730 |
| 1994 | — | — | 43 | #1,966 |
| 1993 | — | — | 45 | #1,866 |
| 1992 | — | — | 47 | #1,799 |
| 1991 | — | — | 33 | #2,218 |
| 1990 | — | — | 24 | #2,761 |
| 1989 | — | — | 23 | #2,767 |
| 1988 | — | — | 11 | #4,405 |
| 1987 | — | — | 18 | #2,926 |
| 1986 | — | — | 11 | #4,077 |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,657 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #7,129 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #7,132 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,509 |
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).