Sahira
Sahira was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,775 among girls’ names; 595 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sahira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sahira?
#8,775 among girls’ names, 2025
Sahira rose from #10,030 in 2015 to #8,775 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 7.5 per million.
31 babies in 2023, the peak
Sahira peaked in 2023, when 31 girls were given it, #4,541 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,775 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,356 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,541 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,173 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,631 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,978 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,521 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,738 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,700 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,328 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #10,030 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,171 | 11.8 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,497 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,299 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,716 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,449 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,991 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,346 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,048 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,555 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,424 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,323 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,506 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,333 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,770 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,893 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,118 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 17 | #6,010 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,211 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,473 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,944 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,512 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,357 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,434 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,178 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,366 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,074 | 7.6 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,795 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,348 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sahira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sahira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sahira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sahira, and how old are they?
An estimated 589 Americans named Sahira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 857 people named Sahira (854 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 471 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 452,434 babies since 1880, Sahira is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 1,935 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Sahira
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 Sahira and names like it
- Compare Sahira and SaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sahira since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Sahira.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sahira alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.