boys:
1.8k births since 1972
#2913 (36th percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1972
#5917 (24th percentile)
The name Tahir is the #5,917 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,839 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 23.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 23.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,913 (36.4% percentile) for all time with 1,839 births since 1972.
Tahir first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (first recorded for boys in 1972).
For boys, Tahir reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 9.1% percentile (ranked #828) with 48 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 48 births per million (ranked 9.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Tahir is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #828 (9.1% percentile) with 48 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tahir".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Tahir. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.9% confident that Tahir is pronounced as TAH-hihr, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is tah-HEAR, at 23.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like T AA1 HH IH0 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.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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