The Tahir surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,984 people carried this name — #14,920 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 149,300 people counted. That is up 82% from 1,091 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 365 people named Tahir live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 171 people named Tahir.
Most of them — 97 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 18 départements, most often Essonne.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
144 people named Tahir live in Switzerland.
They live in 11 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
912 people named Tahir are counted in Sweden, Norway and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0 · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Tahir,
with a public archive behind them.
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Bursalı Mehmed Tahir Bey 1861–1925 · writer -
Bursalı Mehmed Tahir Bey 1861–1925 · writer
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Ibrahim Tahir d. 2009 · writer
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Baba Tahir 947–1032 · writer
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Menemenlizade Mehmed Tahir 1862–1903 · writer
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Menemenlizade Mehmed Tahir 1863–1903 · writer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Tahir.
- Taddei 713 · U.S. census
- Taffet 178 · U.S. census
- Taghon 189 · U.S. census
- Tagliaferri 492 · U.S. census
- Tagliaferro 475 · U.S. census
- Taglione 157 · U.S. census
- Tahiri 239 · U.S. census
- Taibi 429 · U.S. census
- Taiclet 186 · U.S. census
- Taillefer 204 · U.S. census
- Taillon 673 · U.S. census
- Tain 166 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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