Jahara
Jahara was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,867 among girls’ names; 267 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jahara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jahara?
#15,867 among girls’ names, 2025
Jahara fell from #8,648 in 2015 to #15,867 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.3 to 3.1 per million.
17 babies in 2018, the peak
Jahara peaked in 2018, when 17 girls were given it, #6,919 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,867 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,524 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,406 | 9.3 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,200 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,604 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,309 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,919 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,834 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,292 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,648 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 8 | #12,372 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,367 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,642 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,864 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,726 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,415 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,066 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,254 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,811 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,104 | 6.5 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,402 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,208 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,327 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,590 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,013 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,260 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,013 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,097 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,004 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,510 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jahara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 267 Americans recorded as Jahara, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jahara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jahara, and how old are they?
An estimated 264 Americans named Jahara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 289 people named Jahara (260 women and girls, 29 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 219 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,111 babies since 1880, Jahara is the fifth most given (6.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 35 babies (14%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jahara
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jahara and names like it
- Compare Jahara and JahairaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJahara peaked in 2018.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Jahara.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jahara alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.