Bahar vs Bahe
American parents have registered 605 Bahars since 1880, against 32 Bahes. Bahar is still ahead, with 30 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Bahar Bahe
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 49 years in which either name was published, Bahar for 44 years and Bahe for 5 years. The lead changed hands once.
Side by side
| Bahar | Bahe | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 605 | 32 |
| Most in one year | 35 | 8 |
| Babies in 2025 | 30 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 600 | 1 |
| Median age today | 12 | 94 |
| Peak year | 2024 | 1928 |
| Best rank | 4,114th girls | 3,076th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 4,546th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1977 | 1926 |
| Girls / boys | 605 / 0 | 0 / 32 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Bahes alive today are over 94; half the Bahars are over 12. That is 82 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Bahar California (8.7×)
- Bahe Arizona (80.6×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Compare something else
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Bahar and Bahe.