Meaning not yet researched.
Mekhi: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 176 in 2025. Its best rank was #344 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #344 in 2005; #1,174 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mekhi in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,174 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #344.
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Mekhi: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 176 boys in 2025. Peak: #344 in 2005 · most boys in one year: 861 (2005).
In 2025, 176 US boys were named Mekhi, making it the 1,174th most common boys’ name of the year, down 149 places from #1,025 in 2024. That is 42 fewer than the 218 boys named Mekhi in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #344, reached in 2005. That year also had the most boys given the name: 861. For comparison, it was #632 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mekhi in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 12 babies. In all, 12,467 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 5,851 babies named Mekhi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,118 US boys were named Mekhi; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 474. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,705 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mekhi ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #531 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Mekhia, Mikhi and Michi are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mekhia (247), Mikhi (230), Michi (151), Mykhia (82), Mikhia (72), Mykhi (61), Mekhiya (37), Meikhi (25), Mekhiah (11), Mekhya (11), Mechy (10), Mekkhi (6).
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 Mekhi in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 16 | #531 | #437 |
| Maryland | 8 | #612 | #566 |
| Missouri | 9 | #627 | #417 |
| Ohio | 13 | #698 | #505 |
| Alabama | 6 | #733 | — |
| Georgia | 12 | #775 | #388 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #809 | #500 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #830 | #433 |
| Illinois | 8 | #989 | #464 |
| Florida | 14 | #993 | #409 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,049 | #322 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,063 | #355 |
| New York | 7 | #1,512 | #507 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,531 | #869 |
| California | 7 | #2,129 | #1,072 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 176 | #1,174 |
| 2024 | — | — | 218 | #1,025 |
| 2023 | — | — | 223 | #989 |
| 2022 | — | — | 239 | #950 |
| 2021 | — | — | 272 | #861 |
| 2020 | — | — | 300 | #782 |
| 2019 | — | — | 329 | #733 |
| 2018 | — | — | 459 | #598 |
| 2017 | — | — | 474 | #575 |
| 2016 | — | — | 428 | #627 |
| 2015 | — | — | 423 | #632 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,328 | 454 | #599 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,894 | 521 | #513 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,229 | 529 | #503 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,614 | 544 | #484 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,297 | 544 | #479 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,276 | 623 | #446 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,395 | 673 | #431 |
| 2007 | — | — | 621 | #449 |
| 2006 | — | — | 616 | #443 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,987 | 861 | #344 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,095 | 826 | #345 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,484 | 688 | #378 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,816 | 406 | #546 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,718 | 303 | #626 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,384 | 163 | #936 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,104 | 193 | #797 |
| 1998 | — | — | 154 | #924 |
| 1997 | — | — | 57 | #1,719 |
| 1996 | — | — | 25 | #2,995 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #5,008 |
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).