MEANING & HISTORY
What does Tahira mean?
Tahira is the feminine form of Tahir in Arabic and Urdu naming. The linked Tahir account gives a range covering purity, virtue and chastity.
The full form is a documented personal-name relationship, rather than a guessed feminine ending attached to an unrelated word. A name’s traditional meaning does not establish the conduct or religion of its bearer.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
People with the name Tahira
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Tahira Ismael-Sansawi
Mayor of Lantawan in Basilan
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
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distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Tahira Ismael-Sansawi
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Tahira in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Tahira
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Akira♂♀Bright in 明 or 昭; clear in 亮
- Samira♀Feminine evening-conversation companion in the Arabic account
- Talina♀Shortened Catalina
- Tamara♀Date palm, through the biblical Tamar family
- Tamera♀Variant of Tamara; date-palm family
- Tara♀Irish place-name form; also Sanskrit star
- Zaira♀Italian and Spanish form of Voltaire’s Zaïre
- Elmira♀Literary form possibly shortened from Edelmira
What rhymes with Tahira?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Tahira further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q7675522 — Tahira (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Tahira Ismael-Sansawi (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q7675522 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Behind the Name — Tahira (opens in a new tab)
Consulted exact-name relationship or linked etymological account, 2026-10-25; see the individual explanation for the supported chain.
- Behind the Name — Tahir (opens in a new tab)
Consulted exact-name relationship or linked etymological account, 2026-10-25; see the individual explanation for the supported chain.