girls:
2.4k births since 1971
#3560 (38th percentile)
boys:
23 births since 1989
#4563 (0th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1971
#5435 (30th percentile)
The name Sahar is the #5,435 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,385 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 29.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,560 (37.7% percentile) for all time with 2,362 births since 1971. For boys, it ranks #4,563 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 23 births since 1989.
Sahar first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for girls and 1989 for boys). Birth data for Sahar is available in 52 out of the 53 years between 1971 and 2023 (52 years for girls and 4 years for boys). 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.
The name Sahar has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Sahar reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 9.1% percentile (ranked #781) with 43 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 43 births per million (ranked 9.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Sahar ranks #906 for girls (4.3% percentile) with 26 births per million, which is 60.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Sahar reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #753) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sahar".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Sahar. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.4% confident that Sahar is pronounced as suh-HAHR, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sah-HAHR, at 33.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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