Sahil
Sahil was given to 62 boys in 2025, #2,281 among boys’ names; 3,160 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,110 Americans named Sahil and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 12 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sahil by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sahil?
#2,281 among boys’ names, 2025
Sahil fell from #1,973 in 2015 to #2,281 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 38.6 to 36.3 per million.
144 babies in 2001, the peak
Sahil peaked in 2001, when 144 boys were given it, #1,025 among boys’ names. The 62 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | #2,281 | 36.3 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,469 | 32.5 |
| 2023 | 68 | #2,144 | 39.8 |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,127 | 40.1 |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,344 | 33.7 |
| 2020 | 60 | #2,286 | 34.8 |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,357 | 32.3 |
| 2018 | 72 | #2,024 | 39.6 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,086 | 36.2 |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,064 | 36.4 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 74 | #1,973 | 38.6 |
| 2014 | 72 | #1,993 | 37.5 |
| 2013 | 82 | #1,777 | 43.3 |
| 2012 | 82 | #1,811 | 43.2 |
| 2011 | 88 | #1,701 | 46.3 |
| 2010 | 100 | #1,587 | 52.1 |
| 2009 | 112 | #1,494 | 56.5 |
| 2008 | 118 | #1,427 | 57.8 |
| 2007 | 106 | #1,506 | 51.1 |
| 2006 | 126 | #1,315 | 61.3 |
| 2005 | 135 | #1,187 | 67.6 |
| 2004 | 141 | #1,125 | 71.0 |
| 2003 | 124 | #1,195 | 62.8 |
| 2002 | 133 | #1,105 | 68.5 |
| 2001 | 144 | #1,025 | 74.1 |
| 2000 | 121 | #1,148 | 61.6 |
| 1999 | 133 | #1,044 | 69.3 |
| 1998 | 125 | #1,060 | 65.4 |
| 1997 | 103 | #1,173 | 54.6 |
| 1996 | 69 | #1,473 | 36.4 |
| 1995 | 52 | #1,725 | 27.3 |
| 1994 | 43 | #1,961 | 22.3 |
| 1993 | 45 | #1,861 | 22.9 |
| 1992 | 47 | #1,794 | 23.5 |
| 1991 | 33 | #2,212 | 16.3 |
| 1990 | 24 | #2,755 | 11.7 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,761 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,400 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,922 | 9.6 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,073 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,652 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,125 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,128 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,507 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sahil a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sahil has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sahil: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sahil, and how old are they?
3,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,160 Americans ever recorded as Sahil. The median Sahil alive today is 20 years old; half are between 12 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 4,098 people named Sahil (29 women and girls, 4,069 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,763 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 384 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,860 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 863 |
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 Sahil born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,565 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,885 | 0.7× |
Where Sahil is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sahil is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1982 it was given 3.0 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 Sahil 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 51,155 babies since 1880, Sahil is the third most given (6.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 62 of their 688 babies (9.0%), the second 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 Sahil
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 Sahil and names like it
- Compare Sahil and SaulBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSahil peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sahil since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Sahil.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sahil alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.