Girls' name · since 1978
Mahagony
Mahagony has 212 recorded births since 1978 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2000 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #19,216 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 212
- born since 1978
- 2000s
- peak decade
Mahagony is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 212 have been recorded since 1978.
Mahagony has 212 recorded births among girls since 1978, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1978 to 2021.
- #19,216 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 212 born since 1978
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Mahagony ranks #19,216 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 212 born since 1978, peaking in the 2000s.
- #19,216 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 212
- born since 1978
- 2000s
- peak decade
Mahagony's 212 recorded births place it above 73.4% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Mahagony's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Mahagony's full recorded timeline at 1999, 54% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 46% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1980, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2000 peak of 22 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Mahagony popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1978–2021
- Peak year (2000)
- 22
- Annual births at peak, across 44 years of records
Mahagony by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (92 births, 43% of the file).
2000s was Mahagony's strongest decade.
92 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 43% of all-time use.
Mahagony births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 6
1970s
6 births
- 1980s 24
1980s
24 births
- 1990s
1990s
80 births
- 2000s
2000s
92 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s 5
2020s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 92 births (43% of all-time use).
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- Mahagony's decade-level peak was the 2000s (92 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Mahagony: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2000)
Similar record span (~43 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1978–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Mahagony draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.