Sahar
#3,517 for girls in 2025, 43 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #10,938
Given to girls 98.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1996 · 83 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,453since 1971
Sahar over time
Rank among girls' names. Sahar has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,517 | 43 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,335 | 47 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #3,428 | 46 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,756 | 62 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,297 | 48 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,450 | 44 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,172 | 50 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,245 | 49 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,091 | 52 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,934 | 57 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,059 | 55 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,425 | 46 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,166 | 51 | — | |
| 2012 | #4,601 | 31 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,496 | 45 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,689 | 42 | — | |
| 2009 | #4,196 | 36 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #3,645 | 44 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #3,653 | 44 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,505 | 45 | — | |
| 2005 | #4,029 | 35 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #3,333 | 45 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,771 | 56 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,582 | 60 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,540 | 60 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,236 | 70 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,405 | 61 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,461 | 56 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,229 | 61 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,780 | 83 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,282 | 58 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,142 | 63 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,922 | 73 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,318 | 56 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,215 | 59 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,101 | 62 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,194 | 55 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #2,251 | 50 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,129 | 51 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,838 | 61 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,172 | 48 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,149 | 46 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,272 | 42 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,830 | 32 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,066 | 28 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,215 | 26 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,860 | 30 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,388 | 22 | — | |
| 1977 | #4,235 | 16 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,154 | 15 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 | — | |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 | — | |
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| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sahar! It came in at #8,324, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1972, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Sahar
- 182 spots since 2024 (#3,335 → #3,517)
- 67 spots since 2020 (#3,450 → #3,517)
- 458 spots since 2015 (#3,059 → #3,517)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1996 at #1,780 (83 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,121 girls born in 1996 were named Sahar (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 37,378 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 25.8% of all girls named Sahar (632) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 119 | #2,860 (1979) | #4,868 |
| 1980s | 439 | #1,838 (1986) | #2,412 |
| 1990s | 632 | #1,780 (1996) | #2,186 |
| 2000s | 495 | #2,236 (2000) | #3,249 |
| 2010s | 478 | #2,934 (2016) | #3,388 |
| 2020s | 290 | #2,756 (2022) | #3,297 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sahar in 1988
Top girls' names in 1988
More about 1988
girls
1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 35,617 of them was named Sahar, which outranked 83.8% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,216Wilma51
- #2,216Xochitl51
- #2,216Yaritza51
- #2,251Sahar50
- #2,251Asley50
- #2,251Callan50
- #2,251Cambria50
- #2,274Asheley49
- #2,274Brea49
- #2,274Cameo49
Tied with 22 names at #2,251; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.