Tahirah
Tahirah was given to 5 girls in 2025, #17,001 among girls’ names; 930 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tahirah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tahirah?
#17,001 among girls’ names, 2025
Tahirah fell from #8,386 in 2015 to #17,001 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 3.1 per million.
32 babies in 1982, the peak
Tahirah peaked in 1982, when 32 girls were given it, #2,891 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,001 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,350 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,480 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,325 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,690 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,113 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,403 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,768 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,386 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,778 | 12.9 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 12 | #9,551 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,172 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,083 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,651 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,328 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,475 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,693 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,103 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,581 | 12.4 |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,044 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,848 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 16 | #7,006 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,285 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,525 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,189 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,617 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,800 | 17.2 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,561 | 13.1 |
| 1995 | 20 | #5,002 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,690 | 16.8 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,174 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,831 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,423 | 17.1 |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,099 | 13.2 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,648 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,858 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,286 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,330 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,050 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,970 | 11.9 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,111 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,891 | 18.9 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,710 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,840 | 12.6 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,229 | 16.2 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,756 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,893 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,086 | 16.4 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,146 | 15.8 |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,750 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,151 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,059 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,549 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tahirah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tahirah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tahirah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tahirah, and how old are they?
An estimated 907 Americans named Tahirah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 20 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 795 people named Tahirah (789 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 891 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 11,210 babies since 1880, Tahirah is the fifth most given (8.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 73 babies (6.8%), the sixth 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 Tahirah
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 Tahirah and names like it
- Compare Tahirah and TarahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTahirah peaked in 1982.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tahirah since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Tahirah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tahirah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.