Sahira — #6252 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Sahira

The Social Security Administration has registered 583 babies named Sahira between 1985 and 2024, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sahira currently holds the #6252 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 31 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sahira performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 181 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Sahira shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 44 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Sahira in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sahira in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 583 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.