Unisex name · since 1978
Mehan
22 babies named Mehan in U.S. Social Security records since 1978, with the highest year being 1986. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 22
- total births
- 1978–1987
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 77%
- born in that decade
Mehan sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 22 recorded since 1978.
Mehan has 22 recorded births among girls since 1978, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1978 to 1987.
- 22 total births
- 1978–1987 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 77% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Mehan's 22 recorded births place it above 38% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Mehan's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Mehan's SSA record in two at 1986 and the more recent half accounts for 55% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 45%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1978, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1986 peak of 6, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Mehan popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1978–1987
- Peak year (1986)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 10 years of records
Mehan popularity over time - boys
10 total births recorded since 2015 (Mehan as boys' name)
Mehan by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Mehan's strongest decade.
17 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 77% of all-time use.
Mehan births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 5
1970s
5 births
- 1980s
1980s
17 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 17 births (77% of all-time use).
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Data Sources
Data as of July 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, 1978–1987 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Mehan: Baby Name Since 1978 - 22 Births, Peak 1986." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/mehan. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 Mehan 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 July 2026.