boys:
2.6k births since 1990
#2461 (46th percentile)
overall:
2.6k births since 1990
#5238 (32nd percentile)
The name Jahir is the #5,238 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,623 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 32.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 32.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,461 (46.3% percentile) for all time with 2,623 births since 1990.
Jahir first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 (first recorded for boys in 1990). Birth data for Jahir is available in 33 out of the 34 years between 1990 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Jahir reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 25.4% percentile (ranked #616) with 102 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 102 births per million (ranked 25.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Jahir ranks #798 for boys (12.4% percentile) with 64 births per million, which is 63.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jahir".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Jahir. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 28.2% confident that Jahir is pronounced as juh-HEAR, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jah-HEAR, at 17.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like JH AH0 HH IY1 R) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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