Girls' name · since 2024

Mahva

Mahva has 13 recorded births since 2024 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.

#51,099 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#13,116 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
13
born since 2024
2020s
peak decade

Yes -- Mahva is the #13116 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 13 recorded since 2024.

Mahva has 13 recorded births among girls since 2024, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #13116 as of the latest data, more common than 24% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2024 to 2025.

  • #51,099 of 72,339 all-time among girls
  • #13,116 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
  • 13 born since 2024
  • 2020s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Mahva ranks #51,099 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,116 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 13 born since 2024, peaking in the 2020s.

#51,099 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#13,116 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
13
born since 2024
2020s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%24.1%
Mahva vs. every other girls name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Mahva's 13 recorded births place it above 28.96% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Mahva compares

13 5th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Mahva's all-time total is 97% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Mahva Median girls name (Kyann) #1 girls name (Olivia)
All-time total births 13 376 567,345
Peak-year births 7 21 19,840

Mahva's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Mahva splits its recorded history at 2025: 54% of all births land in the more recent half, 46% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2024 (6 births) -- compare that against the 2025 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.

Mahva popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (2025)
7
Annual births at peak, across 2 years of records
5.566.577.5 20242025 7

Mahva by decade

2020s is the heaviest window (13 births, 100% of the file).

2020s was Mahva's strongest decade.

13 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.

Mahva births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2020s at 13 births (100% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Mahva?
Mahva has been given to 13 babies in the U.S. since 2024, according to SSA data. Its archive ordinal is #51,099 of 72,339 among girls' names (total births, highest first). Among girls in 2025, it is #13,116 of 17,297. 7 babies were born in 2025, its single highest year.
Where does Mahva sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Mahva ranks #51,099 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,116 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Mahva most popular?
Mahva was most popular in the 2020s decade with 13 total births. The single peak year was 2025.
How long has the name Mahva been used?
Mahva has been recorded in Social Security data since 2024, spanning 2 years of data through 2025.
What names are similar to Mahva?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Mahogany, Mahala, Mahalia, Maha, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for girls.

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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span

Two nationwide peer axes for Mahva: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.

Data Sources

Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.

Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2024–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Mahva draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.