The Tahiri surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 239 people carried this name — #79,598 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,250,000 people counted. That is up 85% from 129 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
1,379 people named Tahiri live in Switzerland.
They live in 19 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere 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 Belgium’s population register
At least 967 people named Tahiri 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 Brussels-Capital.
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 193 people named Tahiri.
Most of them — 166 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 16 départements, most often French Polynesia.
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 the Nordic population registers
633 people named Tahiri are counted in Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. 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) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Tahiri in American newspapers,
1830–1917.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 122 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Tahiri,
with a public archive behind them.
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Edita Tahiri 1956– · politician -
Abdullah Tahiri 1956–1999 -
Anas Tahiri 1995– · association football player -
Salar Taheri 2006– · basketball player -
Abderrahmane Tahiri Jouti Hassani 1939– · playwright
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Mustapha Tahiri 1953–2025 · association football player
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 20 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Tahiri.
- 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
- Tahir 1,984 · 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
- Taing 2,350 · U.S. census
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