Mahir
Mahir was given to 130 boys in 2025, #1,405 among boys’ names; 1,658 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,640 Americans named Mahir and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mahir by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mahir mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Mahir is “a male given name from Arabic”
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ماهر (mâhir), from Arabic مَاهِر (māhir).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mahir?
#1,405 among boys’ names, 2025
Mahir rose from #2,316 in 2015 to #1,405 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 29.7 to 76.1 per million.
130 babies in 2025, the peak
Mahir peaked in 2025, when 130 boys were given it, #1,405 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 122 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 130 | #1,405 | 76.1 |
| 2024 | 122 | #1,485 | 70.8 |
| 2023 | 114 | #1,544 | 66.6 |
| 2022 | 117 | #1,537 | 67.0 |
| 2021 | 101 | #1,655 | 57.7 |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,628 | 57.4 |
| 2019 | 79 | #1,894 | 44.0 |
| 2018 | 86 | #1,787 | 47.4 |
| 2017 | 74 | #1,950 | 40.0 |
| 2016 | 66 | #2,126 | 34.8 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 57 | #2,316 | 29.7 |
| 2014 | 54 | #2,388 | 28.1 |
| 2013 | 56 | #2,294 | 29.6 |
| 2012 | 45 | #2,701 | 23.7 |
| 2011 | 35 | #3,216 | 18.4 |
| 2010 | 41 | #2,903 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 27 | #3,883 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 32 | #3,465 | 15.7 |
| 2007 | 35 | #3,219 | 16.9 |
| 2006 | 43 | #2,724 | 20.9 |
| 2005 | 38 | #2,824 | 19.0 |
| 2004 | 30 | #3,256 | 15.1 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,728 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,265 | 9.8 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,221 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,210 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,677 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,134 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,822 | 9.5 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,399 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,216 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,749 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,946 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,046 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,849 | 3.7 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,940 | 3.3 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,670 | 2.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,453 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mahir a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mahir has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mahir: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mahir, and how old are they?
1,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,658 Americans ever recorded as Mahir. The median Mahir alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 1,369 people named Mahir (16 women and girls, 1,353 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 990 born in the U.S. The Census count is 38% 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 X | 1965-1980 | 9 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 53 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 432 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,150 |
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 Mahir born?
The states with the most babies named Mahir are Minnesota, Ohio and Washington, with 87% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota and Washington are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 54 | #117 | 10.8× |
| Ohio | 12 | #738 | 1.3× |
| Washington | 11 | #626 | 1.2× |
| New York | 7 | #1,507 | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,473 | 0.5× |
Where Mahir is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mahir is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1977 it was given 10.8 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 boys’ 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 Mahir 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 6,082 babies since 1880, Mahir is the second most given (27% of them). In 2025 it was given to 130 of their 309 babies (42%), 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 Mahir
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 Mahir and names like it
- Compare Mahir and MayerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMahir peaked in 2025.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mahir since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Mahir: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Mahir.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mahir alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.