Sahir vs Sahra

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Sahir Sahra

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 51 years in which either name was published, Sahra for 32 years and Sahir for 19 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

• 1974–1997 Sahra ahead
• 1998 Sahir ahead
• 1999–2002 Sahra ahead
• 2003 Sahir ahead
• 2004–2005 Sahra ahead
• 2006 Sahir ahead
• 2007–2008 Sahra ahead
• 2009–2012 Sahir ahead
• 2013 Sahra ahead
• 2014–2025 Sahir ahead

Side by side

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 Sahras alive today are over 21; half the Sahirs are over 10. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Sahir Pennsylvania (4.1×), New York (3.2×), California (2.4×)
• Sahra Minnesota (32.7×), California (2.8×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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