Bahira

loc · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bahira is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.

India (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
30 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Catalan

brilliant, superb, magnificent, gorgeous, spectacular

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bahira counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Bahira is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—256—3
SE Sweden—20—3
SI Slovenia—19——
FI Finland—15——
HR Croatia—11——

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bahira is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Malay given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Buhaira

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Бахира

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Bahira
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—20#24,229
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202519#1,869
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202019—
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—19#3,784
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202319#1,826
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201919—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201819—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)197419—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202418#1,902
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202217#1,891
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201717—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202116#1,942

Reference works 2

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bahira”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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