Meaning not yet researched.
Tahir: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 53 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,686 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,686 in 1999; #2,535 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tahir in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,535 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #1,686.
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Tahir: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 53 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,686 in 1999 · most boys in one year: 88 (2023).
In 2025, 53 US boys were named Tahir, making it the 2,535th most common boys’ name of the year, down 617 places from #1,918 in 2024. That is 30 fewer than the 83 boys named Tahir in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,686, reached in 1999. The most boys given the name in a single year was 88, in 2023. For comparison, it was #2,804 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tahir in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 9 babies. In all, 1,976 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 511 babies named Tahir.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 637 US boys were named Tahir; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 88. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,228 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Tahir ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #1,217 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Taher, Taahir and Thair 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Taher (252), Taahir (88), Thair (12), Taire (8), Tar (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 Tahir 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,217 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,447 | — |
| New York | 5 | #2,010 | #1,461 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 53 | #2,535 |
| 2024 | — | — | 83 | #1,918 |
| 2023 | — | — | 88 | #1,829 |
| 2022 | — | — | 82 | #1,916 |
| 2021 | — | — | 77 | #1,956 |
| 2020 | — | — | 52 | #2,498 |
| 2019 | — | — | 52 | #2,553 |
| 2018 | — | — | 51 | #2,543 |
| 2017 | — | — | 52 | #2,488 |
| 2016 | — | — | 47 | #2,657 |
| 2015 | — | — | 43 | #2,804 |
| 2014 | — | — | 44 | #2,747 |
| 2013 | — | — | 34 | #3,255 |
| 2012 | — | — | 39 | #2,996 |
| 2011 | — | — | 37 | #3,103 |
| 2010 | — | — | 43 | #2,820 |
| 2009 | — | — | 51 | #2,518 |
| 2008 | — | — | 49 | #2,576 |
| 2007 | — | — | 45 | #2,713 |
| 2006 | — | — | 60 | #2,171 |
| 2005 | — | — | 52 | #2,291 |
| 2004 | — | — | 55 | #2,157 |
| 2003 | — | — | 56 | #2,053 |
| 2002 | — | — | 50 | #2,148 |
| 2001 | — | — | 48 | #2,180 |
| 2000 | — | — | 45 | #2,219 |
| 1999 | — | — | 63 | #1,686 |
| 1998 | — | — | 39 | #2,310 |
| 1997 | — | — | 38 | #2,255 |
| 1996 | — | — | 38 | #2,213 |
| 1995 | — | — | 34 | #2,343 |
| 1994 | — | — | 28 | #2,677 |
| 1993 | — | — | 24 | #2,936 |
| 1992 | — | — | 23 | #2,988 |
| 1991 | — | — | 22 | #2,974 |
| 1990 | — | — | 29 | #2,428 |
| 1989 | — | — | 11 | #4,776 |
| 1988 | — | — | 19 | #2,941 |
| 1987 | — | — | 17 | #3,057 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,631 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,301 |
| 1984 | — | — | 15 | #3,088 |
| 1983 | — | — | 14 | #3,207 |
| 1982 | — | — | 17 | #2,811 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,906 |
| 1980 | — | — | 13 | #3,406 |
| 1979 | — | — | 24 | #2,146 |
| 1978 | — | — | 17 | #2,655 |
| 1977 | — | — | 23 | #2,123 |
| 1976 | — | — | 19 | #2,407 |
| 1975 | — | — | 15 | #2,740 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #5,160 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,445 |
| 1972 | — | — | 9 | #3,583 |
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).