Sahara
#1,962 for girls in 2025, 98 births · Last seen for boys in 2003 at #10,894
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2006 · 248 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,729since 1964
Sahara over time
Rank among girls' names. Sahara 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 | #1,962 | 98 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,637 | 126 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,681 | 123 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,590 | 133 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,577 | 133 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,494 | 143 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,523 | 142 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,710 | 121 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,686 | 127 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,942 | 103 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,731 | 121 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,830 | 111 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,675 | 126 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,530 | 144 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,307 | 180 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,357 | 172 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,398 | 169 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,250 | 201 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,057 | 248 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,033 | 248 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,158 | 200 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,871 | 101 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,106 | 83 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #1,853 | 96 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,887 | 92 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,632 | 108 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,539 | 110 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,690 | 94 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,828 | 81 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,964 | 72 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,787 | 80 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,862 | 76 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,127 | 63 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,965 | 70 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,484 | 50 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,492 | 48 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,527 | 45 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,489 | 43 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,572 | 39 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,054 | 30 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,170 | 28 | — | |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 | — | |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 | — | |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 | — | |
| 1980 | #6,319 | 10 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,420 | 16 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,777 | 19 | — | |
| 1977 | #4,652 | 14 | — | |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | — | |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | — | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
| 1971 | #5,543 | 9 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
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| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sahara! It came in at #6,767, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1969, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Sahara is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#673 · 1 in 2,884
- Florida#823 · 1 in 4,470
- New York#911 · 1 in 4,974
- Pennsylvania#1,019 · 1 in 6,044
- Ohio#1,152 · 1 in 6,843
Best ever in a state: #186 in Delaware, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #673 | 6 | 1 in 2,884 |
| Florida | #823 | 18 | 1 in 4,470 |
| New York | #911 | 16 | 1 in 4,974 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,019 | 8 | 1 in 6,044 |
| Ohio | #1,152 | 7 | 1 in 6,843 |
| Illinois | #1,190 | 7 | 1 in 6,965 |
| Michigan | #1,218 | 5 | 1 in 7,570 |
| Georgia | #1,279 | 6 | 1 in 7,415 |
| Texas | #1,541 | 14 | 1 in 10,924 |
| California | #1,625 | 14 | 1 in 12,444 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Sahara
- 325 spots since 2024 (#1,637 → #1,962)
- 468 spots since 2020 (#1,494 → #1,962)
- 231 spots since 2015 (#1,731 → #1,962)
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 2006 at #1,033 (248 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,666 girls born in 2006 were named Sahara (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,401 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 32.7% of all girls named Sahara (1,546) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #6,767 (1964) | #6,767 |
| 1970s | 93 | #3,777 (1978) | #6,542 |
| 1980s | 238 | #2,489 (1988) | #4,451 |
| 1990s | 744 | #1,539 (1999) | #1,974 |
| 2000s | 1,546 | #1,033 (2006) | #1,525 |
| 2010s | 1,347 | #1,307 (2011) | #1,629 |
| 2020s | 756 | #1,494 (2020) | #1,657 |
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.
Sahara in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 11,305 of them was named Sahara, which outranked 91.5% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,485Maizie144
- #1,485Rihanna144
- #1,485Yuliana144
- #1,494Sahara143
- #1,494Avyanna143
- #1,494Giulia143
- #1,494Juana143
- #1,503Adaleigh142
- #1,503Clarke142
- #1,503Khalia142
Tied with 8 names at #1,494; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.