Saharah
Saharah was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 156 Americans have been recorded with it between 1996 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Saharah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Saharah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,322, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 2007, the peak
Saharah peaked in 2007, when 15 girls were given it, #8,441 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #17,322 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,945 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,234 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,274 | 5.3 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,725 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,185 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,475 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,615 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,674 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,446 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | #19,904 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,441 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,228 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,780 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,694 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,538 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,025 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,390 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,733 | 5.5 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,065 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,117 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Saharah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Saharah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Saharah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Saharah, and how old are they?
An estimated 155 Americans named Saharah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 155 people named Saharah (152 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 144 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Saharah?
Saharah is a less common spelling of Sahara: SSA has recorded 156 Saharah and 4,734 Sahara since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,112,199 babies since 1880, Saharah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,942 babies recorded by SSA was a Saharah (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Saharah
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 Saharah and names like it
- Compare Saharah and SaharaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSaharah peaked in 2007.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Saharah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Saharah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.