Bahja — girls' name

What the Data Says About Bahja

The Social Security Administration has registered 164 babies named Bahja between 1989 and 2023, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bahja currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 13 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bahja performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 47 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Bahja shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Minnesota, which accounts for 17 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Bahja in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bahja in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 164 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.