Jahid
Jahid is an Arabic name from the word which means "effort, strive" or "endeavour" and stems from the Arabic verb jahada "to do effort to get something; be laborious; be perseverant; be sedulous; be serious".
- Arabic
- Bengali
Meaning & Origin of Jahid
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Jahid is an Arabic name from the word which means "effort, strive" or "endeavour" and stems from the Arabic verb jahada "to do effort to get something; be laborious; be perseverant; be sedulous; be serious".
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Arabic
- Bengali
The Story of Jahid
Jahid first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1987, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1998: 12 births, good for #5,157 nationwide. The 2000s were its strongest decade, accounting for roughly 32% of all recorded Jahids. Its most recent appearance in the national data came in 2023 (8 births); the name has since faded from the published rankings. In total, more than 200 Jahids have been born in the U.S. since records began in 1880, spanning the 1980s through the 2020s.
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About the name Jahid
Jahid is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1987 and has accumulated 200 births in the dataset. Jahid's peak popularity came in 1998 when it ranked #5,157. Use the chart and map above to compare Jahid's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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