Given name
Tahirah
“one who is chaste; pure”
Tahirah is used as a given name. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is chaste; pure.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “one who is chaste; pure.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tahirah through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 930
- 0 boys · 930 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 32 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #17,005 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −51%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 17,005 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 795 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tahirah’s family of names
Tahirah has a related form in Tahira. Tahirah has a related form in Tahera. Tahirah has a related form in Taheera.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Tahiravariant
- Taahiravariant
- Taheravariant
- Taheeravariant
- Tahirrahlikely variant
- Tahearavariant
- Tahirravariant
- Taherrivariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Tahirah
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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