Tahir
#2,516 for boys in 2025, 53 births
- Peak · boys
- 1999 · 63 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,976since 1972
Tahir over time
Rank among boys' names. Tahir 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 | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,516 | 53 |
| 2024 | #1,902 | 83 |
| 2023 | #1,817 | 88 |
| 2022 | #1,907 | 82 |
| 2021 | #1,943 | 77 |
| 2020 | #2,467 | 52 |
| 2019 | #2,525 | 52 |
| 2018 | #2,507 | 51 |
| 2017 | #2,450 | 52 |
| 2016 | #2,626 | 47 |
| 2015 | #2,766 | 43 |
| 2014 | #2,705 | 44 |
| 2013 | #3,189 | 34 |
| 2012 | #2,954 | 39 |
| 2011 | #3,046 | 37 |
| 2010 | #2,787 | 43 |
| 2009 | #2,486 | 51 |
| 2008 | #2,542 | 49 |
| 2007 | #2,684 | 45 |
| 2006 | #2,150 | 60 |
| 2005 | #2,265 | 52 |
| 2004 | #2,131 | 55 |
| 2003 | #2,031 | 56 |
| 2002 | #2,125 | 50 |
| 2001 | #2,151 | 48 |
| 2000 | #2,196 | 45 |
| 1999 | #1,671 | 63 |
| 1998 | #2,274 | 39 |
| 1997 | #2,228 | 38 |
| 1996 | #2,183 | 38 |
| 1995 | #2,299 | 34 |
| 1994 | #2,618 | 28 |
| 1993 | #2,865 | 24 |
| 1992 | #2,909 | 23 |
| 1991 | #2,915 | 22 |
| 1990 | #2,373 | 29 |
| 1989 | #4,527 | 11 |
| 1988 | #2,860 | 19 |
| 1987 | #2,942 | 17 |
| 1986 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | #4,052 | 10 |
| 1984 | #2,956 | 15 |
| 1983 | #3,071 | 14 |
| 1982 | #2,709 | 17 |
| 1981 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #3,256 | 13 |
| 1979 | #2,104 | 24 |
| 1978 | #2,568 | 17 |
| 1977 | #2,063 | 23 |
| 1976 | #2,329 | 19 |
| 1975 | #2,637 | 15 |
| 1974 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #3,344 | 9 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tahir! It came in at #3,344, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1974, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
See more about Tahir
- 614 spots since 2024 (#1,902 → #2,516)
- 49 spots since 2020 (#2,467 → #2,516)
- 250 spots since 2015 (#2,766 → #2,516)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 1999 at #1,671 (63 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 19,438 boys born in 2023 were named Tahir (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 32,228 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,671 in 1999, was only 1 in 30,479 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.9% of all boys named Tahir (511) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 120 | #2,063 (1977) | #2,967 |
| 1980s | 130 | #2,709 (1982) | #3,681 |
| 1990s | 338 | #1,671 (1999) | #2,434 |
| 2000s | 511 | #2,031 (2003) | #2,276 |
| 2010s | 442 | #2,450 (2017) | #2,756 |
| 2020s | 435 | #1,817 (2023) | #2,092 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tahir in 2003
Top boys' names in 2003
More about 2003
boys
1,975,349 boys got a published name in 2003; 1 in 35,274 of them was named Tahir, which outranked 84.1% of the 12,761 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,006Steele57
- #2,006Tashawn57
- #2,006Zacary57
- #2,031Tahir56
- #2,031Akeem56
- #2,031Brevin56
- #2,031Cormac56
- #2,055Abran55
- #2,055Camrin55
- #2,055Carsten55
Tied with 23 names at #2,031; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.