Mahira
Mahira was given to 83 girls in 2025, #2,230 among girls’ names; 829 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mahira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mahira?
#2,230 among girls’ names, 2025
Mahira rose from #4,670 in 2015 to #2,230 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 16.8 to 51.6 per million.
85 babies in 2024, the peak
Mahira peaked in 2024, when 85 girls were given it, #2,226 among girls’ names. The 83 births of 2025 are 98% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #2,230 | 51.6 |
| 2024 | 85 | #2,226 | 52.5 |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,545 | 43.6 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,885 | 36.0 |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,626 | 40.2 |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,050 | 32.8 |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,150 | 30.4 |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,893 | 34.1 |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,736 | 36.5 |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,310 | 27.7 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,670 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,722 | 16.8 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,254 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,468 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,145 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,211 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,177 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,780 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,368 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,672 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,135 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,965 | 4.4 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,902 | 3.9 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,159 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,795 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,592 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mahira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mahira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mahira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mahira, and how old are they?
An estimated 824 Americans named Mahira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 10. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 546 people named Mahira (541 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 424 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% 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 Mahira born?
The states with the most babies named Mahira are New York, Texas and California, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 16 | #965 | 2.6× |
| Texas | 6 | #3,156 | 0.8× |
| California | 6 | #2,972 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,115 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,130 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,333 | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,344 | 0.6× |
Where Mahira is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mahira is most over-represented in New York: since 1992 it was given 2.6 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 Mahira 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 658,714 babies since 1880, Mahira is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 83 of their 3,788 babies (2.2%), the fifth 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 Mahira
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 Mahira and names like it
- Compare Mahira and MariaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMahira peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mahira since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Mahira.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mahira alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.