Tahirih
Táhirih (Ṭāhira) (Persian: طاهره, "The Pure One," also called Qurrat al-ʿAyn are both titles of Fatimah Baraghani/Umm-i Salmih, an influential poet, women's rights activist and theologian of the Bábí faith in Iran. She was one of the Letters of the Living, the first group of followers of the Báb. Her life, influence and execution made her a key figure of the religion.
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Meaning & Origin of Tahirih
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Táhirih (Ṭāhira) (Persian: طاهره, "The Pure One," also called Qurrat al-ʿAyn are both titles of Fatimah Baraghani/Umm-i Salmih, an influential poet, women's rights activist and theologian of the Bábí faith in Iran. She was one of the Letters of the Living, the first group of followers of the Báb. Her life, influence and execution made her a key figure of the religion.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
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The Story of Tahirih
Tahirih first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1967, with 7 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1970: 9 births, good for #5,413 nationwide. About 52% of every Tahirih on record arrived during the 1970s, its defining decade. Tahirih last appeared in the published SSA data in 2020, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 95 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1960s to the 2020s.
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About the name Tahirih
Tahirih is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1967 and has accumulated 95 births in the dataset. Tahirih's peak popularity came in 1970 when it ranked #5,413. Use the chart and map above to compare Tahirih'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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