Mahogany
Mahogany was given to 65 girls in 2025, #2,676 among girls’ names; 4,134 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,070 Americans named Mahogany and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 13 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mahogany by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mahogany?
#2,676 among girls’ names, 2025
Mahogany fell from #2,332 in 2015 to #2,676 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 44.8 to 40.4 per million.
164 babies in 2000, the peak
Mahogany peaked in 2000, when 164 girls were given it, #1,213 among girls’ names. The 65 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #2,676 | 40.4 |
| 2024 | 78 | #2,356 | 48.1 |
| 2023 | 68 | #2,605 | 42.4 |
| 2022 | 113 | #1,815 | 68.9 |
| 2021 | 94 | #2,053 | 57.3 |
| 2020 | 86 | #2,129 | 53.2 |
| 2019 | 91 | #2,086 | 54.2 |
| 2018 | 76 | #2,400 | 44.7 |
| 2017 | 88 | #2,175 | 51.0 |
| 2016 | 83 | #2,298 | 46.8 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 80 | #2,332 | 44.8 |
| 2014 | 82 | #2,284 | 45.9 |
| 2013 | 79 | #2,336 | 45.0 |
| 2012 | 79 | #2,370 | 44.9 |
| 2011 | 73 | #2,500 | 41.5 |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,859 | 34.3 |
| 2009 | 82 | #2,366 | 44.6 |
| 2008 | 79 | #2,433 | 41.8 |
| 2007 | 99 | #2,063 | 51.5 |
| 2006 | 108 | #1,890 | 56.8 |
| 2005 | 86 | #2,152 | 46.5 |
| 2004 | 103 | #1,847 | 56.1 |
| 2003 | 102 | #1,827 | 55.8 |
| 2002 | 115 | #1,616 | 64.0 |
| 2001 | 134 | #1,415 | 74.4 |
| 2000 | 164 | #1,213 | 90.3 |
| 1999 | 144 | #1,279 | 81.2 |
| 1998 | 125 | #1,375 | 70.7 |
| 1997 | 138 | #1,276 | 79.3 |
| 1996 | 103 | #1,547 | 58.8 |
| 1995 | 86 | #1,708 | 48.9 |
| 1994 | 84 | #1,745 | 47.0 |
| 1993 | 76 | #1,871 | 42.0 |
| 1992 | 92 | #1,651 | 49.9 |
| 1991 | 84 | #1,732 | 44.8 |
| 1990 | 53 | #2,360 | 27.9 |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,014 | 19.5 |
| 1988 | 53 | #2,169 | 29.8 |
| 1987 | 58 | #1,955 | 33.4 |
| 1986 | 50 | #2,136 | 29.1 |
| 1985 | 45 | #2,275 | 26.2 |
| 1984 | 71 | #1,589 | 42.2 |
| 1983 | 71 | #1,575 | 42.5 |
| 1982 | 73 | #1,603 | 43.1 |
| 1981 | 60 | #1,838 | 36.0 |
| 1980 | 63 | #1,753 | 37.9 |
| 1979 | 59 | #1,824 | 36.8 |
| 1978 | 49 | #1,977 | 32.0 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,964 | 17.6 |
| 1976 | 49 | #1,878 | 33.4 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,871 | 11.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mahogany a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mahogany has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mahogany: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mahogany, and how old are they?
4,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,134 Americans ever recorded as Mahogany. The median Mahogany alive today is 24 years old; half are between 13 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 2,875 people named Mahogany (2,858 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,602 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 251 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,070 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,670 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,080 |
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 Mahogany born?
The states with the most babies named Mahogany are Texas, North Carolina and Georgia, with 69% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #2,321 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,232 | 2.5× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,481 | 1.9× |
| California | 5 | #3,362 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,367 | 0.6× |
Where Mahogany is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mahogany is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1975 it was given 2.5 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 Mahogany 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,855 babies since 1880, Mahogany is the most given (85% of them). In 2025 it was given to 65 of their 73 babies (89%), again the most given.
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 Mahogany
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 Mahogany and names like it
- Compare Mahogany and MahoganiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMahogany peaked in 2000.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mahogany since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Mahogany.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mahogany alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.