Taher
Taher was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,546 among boys’ names; 252 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taher by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taher?
#10,546 among boys’ names, 2025
Taher fell from #8,646 in 2015 to #10,546 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.7 to 4.1 per million.
14 babies in 2014, the peak
Taher peaked in 2014, when 14 boys were given it, #6,265 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,546 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 5 | #13,997 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,633 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,216 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,743 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,981 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,564 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,581 | 4.3 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,646 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,265 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 8 | #9,544 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,980 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 6 | #12,083 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 5 | #13,998 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 5 | #14,231 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 5 | #14,339 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 6 | #12,166 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,876 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,574 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,914 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 7 | #9,261 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,866 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,996 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,779 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,785 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,607 | 2.7 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,738 | 4.1 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,331 | 3.9 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,353 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,993 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,624 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,245 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Taher a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Taher has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Taher: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taher, and how old are they?
An estimated 247 Americans named Taher and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 731 people named Taher (13 women and girls, 718 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 202 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,316 babies since 1880, Taher is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 66 babies (11%), again the second 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 Taher
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 Taher and names like it
- Compare Taher and TahirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTaher peaked in 2014.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Taher.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Taher alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.