Sehar
Sehar is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language crime drama film directed by Kabeer Kaushik, starring Arshad Warsi, Mahima Chaudhry, Sushant Singh and Pankaj Kapur. The film depicts organized crime in the state of Uttar Pradesh in the 1990s, and how the police worked to tackle it.
Meaning & Origin of Sehar
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Sehar is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language crime drama film directed by Kabeer Kaushik, starring Arshad Warsi, Mahima Chaudhry, Sushant Singh and Pankaj Kapur. The film depicts organized crime in the state of Uttar Pradesh in the 1990s, and how the police worked to tackle it.
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The Story of Sehar
The earliest SSA record of Sehar as a baby girl name dates back to 1989, when 7 babies received it. 1999 was its biggest year on record, with 15 newborns named Sehar — #6,484 in the national rankings. About 33% of every Sehar on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Sehar last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 204 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
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About the name Sehar
Sehar is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1989 and has accumulated 204 births in the dataset. Sehar's peak popularity came in 1999 when it ranked #6,484. Use the chart and map above to compare Sehar's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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- 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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