Mahdi — #1599 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Mahdi

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,294 babies named Mahdi between 1959 and 2024, spanning 66 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mahdi currently holds the #1599 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 107 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mahdi performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 824 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Mahdi shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Michigan, which accounts for 563 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Mahdi in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mahdi in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,294 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.