Meaning not yet researched.
Maha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 62 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,133 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,133 in 2002; #2,764 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maha in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,764 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #2,133.
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Maha: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 62 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,133 in 2002 · most girls in one year: 79 (2002).
In 2025, 62 US girls were named Maha, making it the 2,764th most common girls’ name of the year, up 442 places from #3,206 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 50 girls named Maha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,133, reached in 2002. That year also had the most girls given the name: 79. For comparison, it was #3,459 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maha in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 6 babies. In all, 2,019 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 556 babies named Maha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 467 US girls were named Maha; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 62. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,924 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maha ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,767 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Maya (123,750 babies since 1880), Mae (115,441 babies since 1880), May (50,099 babies since 1880) and Maia (18,200 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Maha in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 7 | #1,767 | #2,136 |
| Texas | 10 | #2,144 | #3,125 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | #2,764 | — | — |
| 2024 | 50 | #3,206 | — | — |
| 2023 | 47 | #3,407 | — | — |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,341 | — | — |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,298 | — | — |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,817 | — | — |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,314 | — | — |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,188 | — | — |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,122 | — | — |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,125 | — | — |
| 2015 | 46 | #3,459 | — | — |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,073 | — | — |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,823 | — | — |
| 2012 | 40 | #3,887 | — | — |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,815 | — | — |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,788 | — | — |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,778 | — | — |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,057 | — | — |
| 2007 | 51 | #3,313 | — | — |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,205 | — | — |
| 2005 | 55 | #2,954 | — | — |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,879 | — | — |
| 2003 | 61 | #2,626 | — | — |
| 2002 | 79 | #2,133 | — | — |
| 2001 | 67 | #2,370 | — | — |
| 2000 | 54 | #2,729 | — | — |
| 1999 | 49 | #2,805 | — | — |
| 1998 | 53 | #2,599 | — | — |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,960 | — | — |
| 1996 | 55 | #2,389 | — | — |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,254 | — | — |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,495 | — | — |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,480 | — | — |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,954 | — | — |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,498 | — | — |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,481 | — | — |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,970 | — | — |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,769 | — | — |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,798 | — | — |
| 1986 | 31 | #3,022 | — | — |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,584 | — | — |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,032 | — | — |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,760 | — | — |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,115 | — | — |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,132 | — | — |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,652 | — | — |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,148 | — | — |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,008 | — | — |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,813 | — | — |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,433 | — | — |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,027 | — | — |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,601 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,065 | — | — |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,433 | — | — |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,235 | — | — |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,270 | — | — |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,299 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,199 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,233 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,474 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).