Saher
Saher was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 180 Americans have been recorded with it between 1989 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Saher by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Saher mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Saher is “a unisex given name.”
Borrowed from Arabic سَاهِر (sāhir).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Saher?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,727, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 2002, the peak
Saher peaked in 2002, when 15 girls were given it, #7,361 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #18,727 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,447 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,961 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,471 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,620 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,160 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,389 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,361 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,952 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,861 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 11 | #8,673 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,130 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,814 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,047 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,417 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,236 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,081 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,255 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,456 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,563 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,998 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Saher a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 180 Americans recorded as Saher, 97% are girls and 3% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Saher: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Saher, and how old are they?
An estimated 177 Americans named Saher and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 23 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 613 people named Saher (388 women and girls, 225 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 178 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.4 times 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,662 babies since 1880, Saher is the second most given (6.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 43 babies recorded by SSA was a Saher (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 Saher
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 Saher and names like it
- Compare Saher and SaharBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSaher peaked in 2002.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Saher since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Saher.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Saher alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.