Tahir
An Arabic name meaning "pure, virtuous". Only around 130 people in Poland carry it, almost all of them men, so most Poles have never met one.
Tahir Pronunciation
Tahir is pronounced TAH-kheer (/ˈtaxir/).
What Tahir means
Where Tahir comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Tahir comes from Arabic. It grows from the root ṭ-h-r, which turns on the idea of purity, and the word tāhir means pure, clean, virtuous. Here the origin and the meaning sit in the same place. That is rare.
The name has mattered in history. Tahir ibn al-Husayn, a general who served the caliph al-Ma'mun, founded the Tahirid dynasty in Khorasan in the ninth century. His descendants governed a large stretch of the eastern Islamic world for decades. The name traveled with Islam far past Arabic-speaking lands, into Turkey, Bosnia, Albania, and Pakistan, keeping its sense of moral cleanness wherever it went.
In Poland, Tahir stays uncommon, a name you might meet once on a school register rather than in every class. It has no Polish diminutive and no settled variant, so it stands as itself. The meaning stays legible to anyone who asks: pure, virtuous.
How many people are named Tahir
1 in 162948 men in Poland is named Tahir. 133 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2885 among male names.
Tahir's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Tahir as a middle name
Tahir is a first name for 133 men in Poland and a middle name for another 22, an 86/14 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1890th, between Sergiej (22) and Teddy (22).
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#1888 Sander22
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#1889 Sergiej22
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#1890 Tahir22
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#1891 Teddy22
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#1892 Tolga22