Meaning not yet researched.
Mahira: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 83 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,226 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,226 in 2024; #2,230 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mahira in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,230 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #2,226.
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Mahira: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 83 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,226 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 85 (2024).
In 2025, 83 US girls were named Mahira, making it the 2,230th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4 places from #2,226 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 85 girls named Mahira in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,226, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 85. For comparison, it was #4,671 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mahira in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1992 with 5 babies. In all, 829 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 416 babies named Mahira.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 637 US girls were named Mahira; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 85. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,365 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mahira ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #965 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mayra (33,561 babies since 1880), Mara (24,054 babies since 1880), Maura (19,970 babies since 1880) and Maira (6,358 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maheera are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Serbian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Maheera (29).
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 Mahira 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 16 | #965 | #1,708 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,115 | — |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,130 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,333 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,344 | — |
| California | 6 | #2,972 | — |
| Texas | 6 | #3,156 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #2,230 | — | — |
| 2024 | 85 | #2,226 | — | — |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,545 | — | — |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,885 | — | — |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,626 | — | — |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,050 | — | — |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,151 | — | — |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,894 | — | — |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,736 | — | — |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,310 | — | — |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,671 | — | — |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,724 | — | — |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,258 | — | — |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,472 | — | — |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,149 | — | — |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,215 | — | — |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,182 | — | — |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,786 | — | — |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,372 | — | — |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,676 | — | — |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,142 | — | — |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,972 | — | — |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,909 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,165 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,801 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,600 | — | — |
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).