About the name Sahara
Sahara belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Sahara first appears in Social Security records in 1964. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1035 in 2006, and in 2024 126 babies received the name — 4,629 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.