Mahina
Mahina was given to 38 girls in 2025, #3,875 among girls’ names; 687 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mahina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mahina mean?
Wiktionary, Hawaiian section
Mahina is “a female given name from Hawaiian” Its etymology gives the sense “moon, moonlight; a farm” (mahina).
mahina (“moon, moonlight; a farm”).
/maˈhi.na/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hawaiian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mahina?
#3,875 among girls’ names, 2025
Mahina rose from #6,619 in 2015 to #3,875 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 10.6 to 23.6 per million.
53 babies in 2022, the peak
Mahina peaked in 2022, when 53 girls were given it, #3,104 among girls’ names. The 38 births of 2025 are 72% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,875 | 23.6 |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,679 | 25.9 |
| 2023 | 52 | #3,167 | 32.4 |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,104 | 32.3 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,204 | 20.7 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,706 | 17.3 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,885 | 22.6 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,712 | 12.9 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,603 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,225 | 14.7 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,619 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,912 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,594 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,334 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,658 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,548 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,762 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,791 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,317 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,090 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,752 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,044 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,831 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,225 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,012 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,342 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,573 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,344 | 6.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,812 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,716 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,401 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,165 | 4.4 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,475 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,261 | 5.3 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,088 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,264 | 3.0 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,606 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mahina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mahina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mahina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mahina, and how old are they?
An estimated 681 Americans named Mahina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 492 people named Mahina (486 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 443 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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.
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 Mahina born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 13 | #38 | 136.6× |
| California | 7 | #2,673 | 0.5× |
Where Mahina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mahina is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1974 it was given 136.6 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 Mahina 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 2,798 babies since 1880, Mahina is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 38 of their 92 babies (41%), the 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 Mahina
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 Mahina and names like it
- Compare Mahina and ManaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMahina peaked in 2022.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mahina since 1910.
- Hawaiian namesWiktionary’s origin for Mahina: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Mahina.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mahina alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.