Meaning not yet researched.
Mahi: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 34 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,053 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,053 in 2009; #4,234 in 2025. About 83% of babies named Mahi in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,234 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #2,053.
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Mahi: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 34 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,053 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 100 (2009).
In 2025, 34 US girls were named Mahi, making it the 4,234th most common girls’ name of the year, down 144 places from #4,090 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 36 girls named Mahi in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,053, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 100. For comparison, it was #3,241 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 7 US boys were named Mahi, making it the 10,302nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 767 places from #9,535 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 8 boys named Mahi in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #9,438, reached in 2023. The most boys given the name in a single year was 8, in 2024. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mahi in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2001 with 11 babies. In all, 1,285 US babies have been given the name, 96% of them girls and 3.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 610 babies named Mahi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 381 US girls were named Mahi; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,273 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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 Mahi in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,234 | 7 | #10,302 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,090 | 8 | #9,535 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,246 | 8 | #9,438 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,115 | — | — |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,060 | — | — |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,327 | 6 | #11,470 |
| 2019 | 42 | #3,648 | 5 | #13,381 |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,325 | — | — |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,123 | — | — |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,751 | — | — |
| 2015 | 51 | #3,241 | — | — |
| 2014 | 59 | #2,912 | — | — |
| 2013 | 70 | #2,556 | — | — |
| 2012 | 70 | #2,589 | — | — |
| 2011 | 87 | #2,187 | 5 | #13,588 |
| 2010 | 80 | #2,376 | — | — |
| 2009 | 100 | #2,053 | — | — |
| 2008 | 85 | #2,309 | — | — |
| 2007 | 98 | #2,080 | — | — |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,965 | — | — |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,849 | 5 | #12,617 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,790 | 5 | #12,501 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,719 | — | — |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,745 | — | — |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,126 | — | — |
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).