Sehar — #12545 US girls' name
204 babies named Sehar in U.S. Social Security records since 1989, with the highest year being 1999. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 29% of names given to girls today.
33% of everyone ever named Sehar was born in this single decade.
15 babies were named Sehar in 1999 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sehar
The Social Security Administration has registered 204 babies named Sehar between 1989 and 2024, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sehar currently holds the #12545 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 15 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sehar performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 68 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Sehar shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Sehar in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sehar 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 204 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.
Sehar at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sehar popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1989
- Peak year (1999)
- 15
- Annual births at peak — across 36 years of records
Currently ranks #12545 among girls.
204 total births across 36 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1999 with 15 births in a single year.
Sehar by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 68 births that decade — 33% of Sehar's all-time total
Sehar decade highlights
- Peak decade 68 births
- Runner-up 65 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Sehar's strongest decade
68 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 33% of all-time use.
Sehar by state
Where Sehar concentrates geographically — total births since 1989
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 7 | 3.4% |
7 of 204 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 3.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 3.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1989–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.