Mahdi
- #1,621 for boys in 2025, 104 births
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 107 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,398since 1959
Mahdi over time
Rank among boys' names. Mahdi has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,621 | 104 |
| 2024 | #1,599 | 107 |
| 2023 | #1,851 | 86 |
| 2022 | #1,951 | 79 |
| 2021 | #2,134 | 67 |
| 2020 | #2,167 | 64 |
| 2019 | #1,842 | 82 |
| 2018 | #1,981 | 74 |
| 2017 | #1,746 | 88 |
| 2016 | #2,028 | 70 |
| 2015 | #1,625 | 98 |
| 2014 | #1,979 | 72 |
| 2013 | #1,636 | 93 |
| 2012 | #1,849 | 79 |
| 2011 | #1,738 | 84 |
| 2010 | #1,768 | 84 |
| 2009 | #2,077 | 66 |
| 2008 | #1,861 | 78 |
| 2007 | #1,795 | 81 |
| 2006 | #1,967 | 68 |
| 2005 | #1,838 | 70 |
| 2004 | #1,785 | 70 |
| 2003 | #2,055 | 55 |
| 2002 | #1,916 | 58 |
| 2001 | #2,217 | 46 |
| 2000 | #2,298 | 42 |
| 1999 | #2,199 | 42 |
| 1998 | #2,450 | 35 |
| 1997 | #2,680 | 29 |
| 1996 | #2,380 | 33 |
| 1995 | #2,444 | 31 |
| 1994 | #2,847 | 25 |
| 1993 | #3,368 | 19 |
| 1992 | #2,467 | 29 |
| 1991 | #3,325 | 18 |
| 1990 | #4,993 | 10 |
| 1989 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #3,350 | 15 |
| 1987 | #3,072 | 16 |
| 1986 | #2,891 | 17 |
| 1985 | #3,599 | 12 |
| 1984 | #4,215 | 9 |
| 1983 | #3,884 | 10 |
| 1982 | #3,692 | 11 |
| 1981 | #3,601 | 11 |
| 1980 | #2,965 | 15 |
| 1979 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #4,418 | 7 |
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| 1974 | #5,227 | 5 |
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| 1959 | #3,988 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Mahdi! It came in at #3,988, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1959–1975, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Mahdi is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#294 · 1 in 1,218
- Virginia#1,089 · 1 in 7,451
- New York#1,202 · 1 in 9,380
- Texas#1,483 · 1 in 14,588
- California#1,582 · 1 in 17,547
Best ever in a state: #283 in Michigan, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #294 | 33 | 1 in 1,218 |
| Virginia | #1,089 | 5 | 1 in 7,451 |
| New York | #1,202 | 9 | 1 in 9,380 |
| Texas | #1,483 | 12 | 1 in 14,588 |
| California | #1,582 | 10 | 1 in 17,547 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Mahdi
- 22 spots since 2024 (#1,599 → #1,621)
- 546 spots since 2020 (#2,167 → #1,621)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 2024 at #1,599 (107 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,102 boys born in 2024 were named Mahdi (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,424 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 34.4% of all boys named Mahdi (824) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 5 | #3,988 (1959) | #3,988 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 33 | #4,157 (1978) | #4,748 |
| 1980s | 124 | #2,891 (1986) | #3,688 |
| 1990s | 271 | #2,199 (1999) | #2,915 |
| 2000s | 634 | #1,785 (2004) | #1,981 |
| 2010s | 824 | #1,625 (2015) | #1,819 |
| 2020s | 507 | #1,599 (2024) | #1,887 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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