Tahir
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Temiz, pak
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tahiɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tahir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 757(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 891
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.8K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 714 (inferred from the name graph)
≈310,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, 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)
Temiz, pak.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tahir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 757 | listed | Tahir | 64 |
| TR Türkiye | #196 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Tahir | 101 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Tahir | 31 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #299 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 891 | 347 | Tahir | 56 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #194 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Tahir | 81 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #192 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Tahir | 92 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 714 | 3K | — | 3 |
| US United States | — | 2,680 | 1 in 124K | 3K | Tahir | 109 |
| CY Cyprus | #154 | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Tahir | 12 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)
Tahir is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, pure; clean
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In German, männl. Vom. arabischer Herkunft (arab. tähir »rein, tugendhaft, keusch« zu arab. tahura »rein sein«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
clear; clean; pure;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In Indonesian, pure
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Arabic, virtuous, pure, pious, modest, clean
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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. 1955EGnot in their usual nameAmerican 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 94 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3K | #10,121 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,920 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,116 |
Reference works 10
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- 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 are other forms of the name Tahir?
- In the etymology graph, Taher is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Tahir?
- A machine transcription gives /tahiɾ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Tahir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 309 thousand people named Tahir in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tahir.
- Is Tahir a male or female name?
- Tahir 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 does the name Tahir mean?
- Recorded meaning: Temiz, pak.
- How common is the name Tahir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,680 people named Tahir in 2020, about 1 in 124 thousand residents.
- How common is Tahir compared with other names?
- In Cyprus, Tahir is the 154th most common given name of 8,840 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tahir?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tahirThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Tahir” — the 154th most common given name in Cyprus. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.