Taher
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Taher is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. In Pakistan it is the 31st most common given name. Recorded meaning: Clean; pure.
- TNTunisia≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- LYLibya≈1 in 2.4K
- EGEgypt≈1 in 5.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Taher itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 191 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Tahir in PK Pakistan.
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)
Clean; pure.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Taher counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #510 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | listed | Taher | 85 |
| EG Egypt | #639 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | listed | Taher | 120 |
| DZ Algeria | #324 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Taher | 34 |
| TN Tunisia | #120 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Taher | 57 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #733 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Taher | 102 |
| PK Pakistan | #31 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 73K | listed | Tahir | 149 |
| LY Libya | #42 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Taher | 45 |
| AL Albania | — | 996as Tahir | 1 in 3.1K | 996 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 715 | 1 in 14K | 715 | Taher | 36 |
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: INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Taher is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
clean
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Dutch, Muslim circumcision ceremony
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tahir Yahyab. 1916IQIraqi politician and former prime minister (1916−1986)
- Tahir Teimurovitsch Salakhovb. 1928AZSoviet, Azerbaijani and Russian artist (1928-2021)
- Aytaç Yalmanb. 1940TRnot in their usual nameTurkish general and statesperson (1940–2020)
- Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikritib. 1950IQIraqi intelligence official (born 1950)
- Taher Elgamalb. 1955EGAmerican cryptographer
- Tahir Karapınarb. 1967TRTurkish association football player and coach (born 1967)
- Tie Domib. 1969CAnot in their usual nameCanadian ice hockey player
- Tahir Bilgiçb. 1970TRTurkish-Australian actor (born 1970)
- Tahir Mamedovb. 1981AZcomedian
- Tagir Khaybulaevb. 1984RUnot in their usual nameRussian judoka
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 60 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 715 | #2,146 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 214 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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
- What does the name Taher mean, and where does it come from?
- Clean; pure. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- Is Taher a male or female name?
- Taher is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Taher?
- In the etymology graph, Tahir is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Taher have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Taher in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled taher.
- How common is the name Taher?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 715 people named Taher, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Taher compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Taher is the 510th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/taherThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Taher” — the 510th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.