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Sahil

About 3,160 American babies have been named Sahil since 1982, most of them around 2001. In 2025 it ranked 2,258th. About 3,100 Sahils are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Sahil

By the numbers

Total US births
3,160
Estimated living today
3,100
Median age today
19
Peak year
2001
Best rank
1,024th
Rank in 2025
2,258th
First recorded
1982

How old the living Sahils are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,160 babies given the name since 1982, about 3,100 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,400 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Sahils

People named Sahil with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Sahil is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Sahil is most concentrated in New Jersey (4.9×), California (3.6×), New York (2.3×), Texas (1.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2001

The most popular boys’ names the year Sahil peaked:

All the names of 2001

Sahil elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Sahil 1,652 275th
France boys Sahil 220 1,411th
Switzerland boys Sahil 23 1,310th
Belgium boys Sahil 17 1,213th
Scotland boys Sahil 6 638th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Sahil: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Sahil 16 0.001% 755th
French boys Switzerland Sahil 7 0.002% 653rd

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Sahil: rank by region

In 2009, Sahil was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Sahil 857 5

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Sahil among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland boys Sahil 16 21

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Sahil lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 186 men called Sahil were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Barcelona Sahil 75 0.026 1,921
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Sahil 11 0.021 3,235
Tarragona Sahil 7 0.016 2,823
Girona Sahil 6 0.014 3,053
Toledo Sahil 5 0.013 2,703
Valencia/València Sahil 15 0.011 3,735

Listed in 6 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 46 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Sahil against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.