Maheen — girls' name
632 babies named Maheen in U.S. Social Security records since 1984, with the highest year being 2001. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
39% of everyone ever named Maheen was born in this single decade.
33 babies were named Maheen in 2001 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Maheen
The Social Security Administration has registered 632 babies named Maheen between 1984 and 2023, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Maheen currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 33 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Maheen performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 248 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Maheen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 54 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Maheen in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Maheen 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 632 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.
Maheen at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Maheen popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1984
- Peak year (2001)
- 33
- Annual births at peak — across 40 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
632 total births across 40 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2001 with 33 births in a single year.
Maheen popularity over time — boys
6 total births recorded since 2007 (Maheen as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Maheen accounts for 1% of total recorded use across both genders.
Maheen by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 248 births that decade — 39% of Maheen's all-time total
Maheen decade highlights
- Peak decade 248 births
- Runner-up 180 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Maheen's strongest decade
248 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 39% of all-time use.
Maheen by state
Where Maheen concentrates geographically — total births since 1984
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 54 | 8.5% |
| #2 | Texas | | 42 | 6.6% |
| #3 | New Jersey | | 12 | 1.9% |
| #4 | California | | 10 | 1.6% |
| #5 | Illinois | | 5 | 0.8% |
54 of 632 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 5 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 8.5% of nationwide
- Texas 6.6% of nationwide
- New Jersey 1.9% of nationwide
- California 1.6% of nationwide
- Illinois 0.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 5 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 8.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1984–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.