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Tahira

Tahira is a girl's name that peaked in 1975, when it was the 2,023rd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 6,546th. About 1,300 Tahiras are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Tahira

By the numbers

Total US births
1,298
Estimated living today
1,300
Median age today
29
Peak year
1975
Best rank
2,023rd
Rank in 2025
6,546th
First recorded
1970

How old the living Tahiras are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,298 babies given the name since 1970, about 1,300 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Tahiras

People named Tahira with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Tahira is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Tahira is most concentrated in New Jersey (8.9×), Pennsylvania (5.1×), New York (4.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1975

The most popular girls’ names the year Tahira peaked:

All the names of 1975

Tahira elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Tahira 473 1,102nd
France girls Tahira +2 spellings 390 1,309th
Scotland girls Tahira 3 497th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Tahira among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Tahira 12 18

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Tahira lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 235 women called Tahira were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Rioja, La Tahira 8 0.048 1,266
Araba/Álava Tahira 7 0.040 1,519
Barcelona Tahira 100 0.033 1,583
Jaén Tahira 5 0.016 1,582
Tarragona Tahira 6 0.014 2,956
Valencia/València Tahira 17 0.012 3,060

Listed in 10 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 42 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Tahira against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.