Sahara
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Sahara
A beautiful and evocative place-name that deserves wider use, Sahara brings to mind deserts and heat. Derived from Arabic, it is the name of the world's largest hot desert, located across the North of Africa. Similar in appearance to Sarah and Zahra and similar in feel to Savannah, it was selected by reality TV star Georgia Harrison for her daughter Sahara Jean Stacey in 2025.
The name has a variety of pronunciations including: suh-HAHR-uh and suh-HEHR-uh in English, SA-A-RA in French, sa-A-ra in Italian and Spanish, za-HA-ra in German and suh-HA-ruh in Arabic.
Sahara is also given to boys.
Pronounced suh-HAR-uh.
As of October 2026, Sahara ranked #1978 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1035 in 2006.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,836 | 111 | 62.1 |
| 2015 | #1,738 | 121 | 67.8 |
| 2016 | #1,951 | 103 | 58.1 |
| 2017 | #1,694 | 127 | 73.6 |
| 2018 | #1,716 | 121 | 71.1 |
| 2019 | #1,525 | 142 | 84.6 |
| 2020 | #1,500 | 143 | 88.5 |
| 2021 | #1,582 | 133 | 81.1 |
| 2022 | #1,597 | 133 | 81.1 |
| 2023 | #1,685 | 123 | 76.7 |
| 2024 | #1,640 | 126 | 77.8 |
| 2025 | #1,978 | 98 | 61 |
World rankings
Sahara for girls
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Sahara on lists
Sahara in pop culture
- Sahara JonesGirl
narrator of the middle,grade novel "Sahara Special" by Esme Raji Cordell