Tahira is from the Arabic ṭāhirah (طاهرة — pure, virtuous) — feminine of ṭāhir. Her famous last words You can kill me as soon as you like, but you cannot stop the emancipation of women are to modern Iranian-Bahá'í feminist discourse. Tahira Syed (born 1959) is a Pakistani ghazal and folk vocalist — widely considered one of the leading Pakistani classical singers of the late 20th century. Over 300,000 Instagram followers.
Tahira does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tahira reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.