Tahira
Tahira was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,798 among girls’ names; 1,298 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,270 Americans named Tahira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 13 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tahira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tahira?
#6,798 among girls’ names, 2025
Tahira fell from #6,008 in 2015 to #6,798 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.3 to 10.6 per million.
43 babies in 1975, the peak
Tahira peaked in 1975, when 43 girls were given it, #2,051 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,798 | 10.6 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,371 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,552 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,782 | 17.7 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,933 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,468 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,152 | 11.9 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,345 | 19.4 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,774 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,963 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #6,008 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,254 | 19.6 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,233 | 19.9 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,312 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,704 | 13.6 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,145 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,597 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,036 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,692 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,688 | 12.6 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,854 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,346 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,429 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,357 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,346 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,384 | 15.4 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,790 | 18.0 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,477 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,836 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,813 | 16.5 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,823 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,222 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,642 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 20 | #5,024 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,525 | 16.5 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,699 | 15.3 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,253 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,822 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,280 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,423 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,629 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,858 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 30 | #2,902 | 18.0 |
| 1982 | 31 | #2,945 | 18.3 |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,057 | 17.4 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,587 | 22.3 |
| 1979 | 41 | #2,340 | 25.5 |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,622 | 21.5 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,897 | 18.3 |
| 1976 | 37 | #2,288 | 25.3 |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,051 | 29.5 |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,336 | 23.2 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,217 | 14.4 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,664 | 17.7 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,165 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tahira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tahira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tahira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tahira, and how old are they?
1,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,298 Americans ever recorded as Tahira. The median Tahira alive today is 30 years old; half are between 13 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 2,130 people named Tahira (2,122 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,144 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 289 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 350 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 308 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 319 |
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 Tahira born?
The states with the most babies named Tahira are New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with 90% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 115 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 84 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 76 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Florida | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| California | 6 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Connecticut | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Tahira is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tahira is most over-represented in New York: since 1970 it was given 1.3 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 girls’ 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 Tahira 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 183,652 babies since 1880, Tahira is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 357 babies (4.8%), 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 Tahira
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 Tahira and names like it
- Compare Tahira and TaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTahira peaked in 1975.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tahira since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Tahira.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tahira alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.