Girls' name · since 2011
Mahia
Mahia has 118 recorded births since 2011 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2024 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #25,325 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,266 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 118
- born since 2011
- 2020s
- peak decade
118 babies have been named Mahia since 2011, making it today's #8266 girls' name.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Mahia has been recorded 118 times among girls since 2011, currently ranked #8266 nationally and more common than 52% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2011 to 2025.
- #25,325 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #8,266 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 118 born since 2011
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Mahia ranks #25,325 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #8,266 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 118 born since 2011, peaking in the 2020s.
- #25,325 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,266 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 118
- born since 2011
- 2020s
- peak decade
Mahia's 118 recorded births place it above 64.92% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Mahia compares
118 28th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Mahia's all-time total is 69% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Mahia | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 118 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 19 | 21 | 19,840 |
Mahia's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Mahia's SSA record in two at 2019 and the more recent half accounts for 58% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 42%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2015, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2024 peak of 19, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Mahia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2011–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 19
- Annual births at peak, across 15 years of records
Mahia by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (62 births, 53% of the file).
2020s was Mahia's strongest decade.
62 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 53% of all-time use.
Mahia births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
56 births
- 2020s
2020s
62 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 62 births (53% of all-time use).
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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, 2011–2025 (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 Mahia 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.