Mahi
Mahi is given to both girls and boys: 34 girls and 7 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,233 among girls’ names and #10,298 among boys’, #6,464 among all names counting both); 1,285 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,280 Americans named Mahi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mahi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mahi?
#4,233 among girls’ names, 2025
Mahi fell from #3,241 in 2015 to #4,233 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 28.6 to 21.2 per million.
100 babies in 2009, the peak
Mahi peaked in 2009, when 100 girls were given it, #2,053 among girls’ names. The 41 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 41% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,233 | 21.2 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,089 | 22.2 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,244 | 21.2 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,112 | 15.9 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,057 | 21.9 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,325 | 19.8 |
| 2019 | 42 | #3,647 | 25.0 |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,324 | 28.2 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,123 | 30.1 |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,751 | 23.1 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 51 | #3,241 | 28.6 |
| 2014 | 59 | #2,910 | 33.0 |
| 2013 | 70 | #2,556 | 39.9 |
| 2012 | 70 | #2,589 | 39.7 |
| 2011 | 87 | #2,187 | 49.5 |
| 2010 | 80 | #2,376 | 45.0 |
| 2009 | 100 | #2,053 | 54.4 |
| 2008 | 85 | #2,309 | 45.0 |
| 2007 | 98 | #2,080 | 51.0 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,964 | 20.0 |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,845 | 20.6 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,786 | 20.7 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,714 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,739 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,119 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mahi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,285 Americans recorded as Mahi, 96% are girls and 4% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mahi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mahi, and how old are they?
1,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,285 Americans ever recorded as Mahi. The median Mahi alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,260 people named Mahi (1,120 women and girls, 140 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,060 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 684 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 591 |
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).
Where are babies named Mahi born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,114 | 5.0× |
| California | 5 | #3,361 | 0.8× |
Where Mahi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mahi is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 2001 it was given 5.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Mahi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 394,676 babies since 1880, Mahi is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 5,381 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Mahi
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 Mahi and names like it
- Compare Mahi and MayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMahi peaked in 2009.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mahi since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Mahi.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mahi alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.