Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Sahara” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sahara” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Sahara” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Sahara” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Sahara” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Sahara” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Sahara” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sahara” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1964 5 0.000001286 5 100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1971 9 0.000002622 9 100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 100%
1975 7 0.000002318 7 100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 100%
1977 14 0.000004407 14 100%
1978 19 0.000005986 19 100%
1979 16 0.000004809 16 100%
1980 10 0.000002903 10 100%
1981 10 0.000002891 10 100%
1982 13 0.000003706 13 100%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 100%
1984 12 0.00000344 12 100%
1985 28 0.000007845 28 100%
1986 30 0.000008434 30 100%
1987 39 0.000010816 39 100%
1988 43 0.000011637 43 100%
1989 45 0.000011705 45 100%
1990 48 0.000012144 48 100%
1991 50 0.000012836 50 100%
1992 70 0.000018223 70 100%
1993 63 0.00001671 63 100%
1994 76 0.000020443 76 100%
1995 80 0.000021845 80 100%
1996 72 0.000019741 72 100%
1997 81 0.00002234 81 100%
1998 94 0.000025556 94 100%
1999 110 0.000029779 110 100%
2000 108 0.000028572 108 100%
2001 92 0.000024577 92 100%
2002 96 0.00002568 96 100%
2003 88 0.000023144 83 5 89%
2004 101 0.000026433 101 100%
2005 199 0.000051758 199 100%
2006 248 0.000062687 248 100%
2007 248 0.000062036 248 100%
2008 201 0.000051136 201 100%
2009 169 0.000044239 169 100%
2010 172 0.00004654 172 100%
2011 180 0.00004921 180 100%
2012 144 0.000039373 144 100%
2013 125 0.000034287 125 100%
2014 111 0.000029948 111 100%
2015 121 0.000032695 121 100%
2016 103 0.000028075 103 100%
2017 127 0.000035513 127 100%
2018 121 0.000034415 121 100%
2019 142 0.000040911 142 100%
2020 143 0.000042807 143 100%
2021 133 0.000039257 133 100%
2022 133 0.000039313 133 100%
2023 123 0.000037147 123 100%
2024 126 0.000037855 126 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Sahara:

  1. Sahana
  2. Sahand
  3. Sahani
  4. Sahanna
  5. Sahar
  6. Sahara (this page)
  7. Saharah
  8. Sahari
  9. Saharra
  10. Saharrah
  11. Saharsh