Taheri
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Taheri is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Persian طاهری.
- IRIran≈1 in 44K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 381K
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 209 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Borrowed from Persian طاهری.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Taheri 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #124 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Taheri | 15 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Taheri | 78 |
| US United States | — | 874 | 1 in 381K | 1.1K | Taheri | 209 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Taheri | 20 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Taheri | 82 |
| SE Sweden | — | 311 | 1 in 33K | 311 | Taheri | 26 |
| NO Norway | — | 180 | 1 in 30K | 180 | — | 13 |
| BH Bahrain | #820 | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Taheri | 13 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Fatemeh Taherib. 1939IRIranian actress (1939–2012)
- Amir Taherib. 1942IRIranian author (born 1942)
- Mohammad Ali Taherib. 1956IRIranian physician
- Mohammadreza Taherib. 1969IRIranian Maddah
- Keyvan Taherib. 1975DEGerman politician
- Kasra Taherib. 2006IRIranian footballer
- Ahmad TaheriIRIranian futsal coach
- Abuzar TaheriIRresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-2510-1695
- Masoud TaheriIranian film director
- Babak TaheriGBresearcher
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 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,593 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 874 | #27,556 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 604 | #35,288 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 311 | #2,874 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 180 | #8,749 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Taheri mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Persian طاهری. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Taheri have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Taheri in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled taheri.
- How common is the name Taheri?
- In the United States, the national register counted 874 people named Taheri in 2010, about 1 in 381 thousand residents.
- How common is Taheri compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Taheri is the 124th most common surname of 11,723 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/taheriThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Taheri” — the 124th most common surname in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.