Tahir

At the 2020 census, 3,035 Americans bore the surname Tahir — 10,121st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 98,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,035
Rank: 10,121st
How common: 1 in 98,500
Per 100,000: 1.0

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Tahir described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 70.4%
White, not Hispanic 13.4%
Black, not Hispanic 11.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Tahir

Baba Tahir (947–1032)Persian poet
Faran Tahir (born 1964)American actor
Kemal Tahir (1910–1973)Turkish novelist
Mohamed El Tahir (born 1984)Sudanese footballer

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

Surnames like Tahir

Taha

Also a first name

Tahir has been given to 1,976 American babies as a first name since 1972, peaking in 2023. See it as a given name.

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.