Jahir
Jahir was given to 94 boys in 2025, #1,737 among boys’ names; 2,842 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,810 Americans named Jahir and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jahir by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jahir?
#1,737 among boys’ names, 2025
Jahir rose from #1,859 in 2015 to #1,737 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 41.2 to 55.0 per million.
215 babies in 2003, the peak
Jahir peaked in 2003, when 215 boys were given it, #812 among boys’ names. The 94 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94 | #1,737 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 125 | #1,449 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 118 | #1,503 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 117 | #1,535 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 106 | #1,609 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 83 | #1,804 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 122 | #1,434 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 86 | #1,783 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 89 | #1,742 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 91 | #1,710 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 79 | #1,859 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 95 | #1,634 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 125 | #1,355 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 83 | #1,788 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 102 | #1,552 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 120 | #1,393 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 109 | #1,522 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 121 | #1,403 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 118 | #1,390 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 139 | #1,207 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 134 | #1,192 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 139 | #1,135 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 215 | #812 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 78 | #1,575 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 32 | #2,886 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 23 | #3,569 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 23 | #3,422 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 18 | #3,905 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,419 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,262 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,299 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,273 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,451 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,968 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,662 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jahir a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jahir has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jahir: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jahir, and how old are they?
2,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,842 Americans ever recorded as Jahir. The median Jahir alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 2,038 people named Jahir (12 women and girls, 2,026 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,199 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 45 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,440 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,320 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Jahir born?
The states with the most babies named Jahir are Texas, Georgia and Florida, with 54% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | #1,597 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 11 | #815 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,399 | 1.0× |
| California | 7 | #2,079 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,077 | 1.0× |
| New York | 6 | #1,645 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,197 | 0.9× |
Where Jahir is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jahir is most over-represented in Texas: since 1990 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jahir with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,728 babies since 1880, Jahir is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 94 of their 291 babies (32%), again the second most given.
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 Jahir
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 Jahir and names like it
- Compare Jahir and JairBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJahir peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jahir since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Jahir.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jahir alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.