Maher
Maher was given to 47 boys in 2025, #2,741 among boys’ names; 1,156 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Maher and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 8 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maher by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maher?
#2,741 among boys’ names, 2025
Maher rose from #3,129 in 2015 to #2,741 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 19.3 to 27.5 per million.
47 babies in 2025, the peak
Maher peaked in 2025, when 47 boys were given it, #2,741 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 28 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #2,741 | 27.5 |
| 2024 | 28 | #3,941 | 16.3 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,038 | 24.0 |
| 2022 | 31 | #3,662 | 17.8 |
| 2021 | 30 | #3,704 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 34 | #3,311 | 19.7 |
| 2019 | 35 | #3,312 | 19.5 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,030 | 21.5 |
| 2017 | 40 | #2,984 | 21.6 |
| 2016 | 35 | #3,269 | 18.4 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #3,129 | 19.3 |
| 2014 | 39 | #2,962 | 20.3 |
| 2013 | 30 | #3,548 | 15.9 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,620 | 11.1 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,111 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,783 | 10.4 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,301 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,280 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,588 | 7.7 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,735 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 23 | #4,005 | 11.5 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,679 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,242 | 14.7 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,292 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 29 | #3,108 | 14.9 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,703 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,258 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,551 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,382 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,648 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,751 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 31 | #2,471 | 16.0 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,944 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 24 | #2,887 | 12.0 |
| 1991 | 27 | #2,576 | 13.4 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,401 | 8.8 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,182 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,455 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,147 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,026 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,159 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,896 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,464 | 11.2 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,221 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,145 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,189 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,282 | 7.6 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,529 | 6.7 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,747 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 16 | #2,665 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 13 | #3,011 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,447 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,861 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,936 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,807 | 3.9 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,411 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maher a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maher has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maher: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maher, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,156 Americans ever recorded as Maher. The median Maher alive today is 19 years old; half are between 8 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 3,010 people named Maher (82 women and girls, 2,928 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 930 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 99 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 275 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 282 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 463 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 6,082 babies since 1880, Maher is the third most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 47 of their 309 babies (15%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maher
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Maher and names like it
- Compare Maher and MayerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMaher peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maher since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Maher.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maher alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.