Mahiyah — girls' name
37 babies named Mahiyah in U.S. Social Security records since 2005, with the highest year being 2007. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
54% of everyone ever named Mahiyah was born in this single decade.
7 babies were named Mahiyah in 2007 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Mahiyah
The Social Security Administration has registered 37 babies named Mahiyah between 2005 and 2015, spanning 11 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mahiyah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 7 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Mahiyah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 20 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Mahiyah shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 14 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Mahiyah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Mahiyah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 37 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Mahiyah at a glance
Last recorded 2015Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Mahiyah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–2005
- Peak year (2007)
- 7
- Annual births at peak — across 11 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2015.
37 total births across 11 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2007 with 7 births in a single year.
Mahiyah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 20 births that decade — 54% of Mahiyah's all-time total
Mahiyah decade highlights
- Peak decade 20 births
- Runner-up 17 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Mahiyah's strongest decade
20 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 54% of all-time use.
Mahiyah by state
Where Mahiyah concentrates geographically — total births since 2005
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Pennsylvania | | 14 | 37.8% |
14 of 37 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Pennsylvania 37.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Pennsylvania accounts for 37.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2005–2015 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.