Mehdi
Mehdi was given to 27 boys in 2025, #4,008 among boys’ names; 1,024 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,000 Americans named Mehdi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mehdi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mehdi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mehdi is “a male given name from Persian.”
/ˈmɛdiː/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mehdi?
#4,008 among boys’ names, 2025
Mehdi rose from #4,141 in 2015 to #4,008 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 13.0 to 15.8 per million.
37 babies in 2012, the peak
Mehdi peaked in 2012, when 37 boys were given it, #3,092 among boys’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,008 | 15.8 |
| 2024 | 28 | #3,947 | 16.3 |
| 2023 | 22 | #4,682 | 12.9 |
| 2022 | 36 | #3,316 | 20.6 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,554 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,227 | 13.9 |
| 2019 | 19 | #5,084 | 10.6 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,694 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 26 | #4,054 | 14.0 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,945 | 14.2 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #4,141 | 13.0 |
| 2014 | 30 | #3,586 | 15.6 |
| 2013 | 30 | #3,552 | 15.9 |
| 2012 | 37 | #3,092 | 19.5 |
| 2011 | 32 | #3,407 | 16.8 |
| 2010 | 31 | #3,506 | 16.2 |
| 2009 | 33 | #3,380 | 16.6 |
| 2008 | 29 | #3,700 | 14.2 |
| 2007 | 32 | #3,418 | 15.4 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,955 | 12.2 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,892 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 27 | #3,508 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,824 | 17.7 |
| 2002 | 28 | #3,232 | 14.4 |
| 2001 | 26 | #3,371 | 13.4 |
| 2000 | 26 | #3,260 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 31 | #2,770 | 16.1 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,351 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,168 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,954 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,982 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,545 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,373 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,549 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,657 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,322 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,703 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,652 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,449 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,034 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,948 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,213 | 7.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,970 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,127 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,767 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,368 | 7.3 |
| 1979 | 19 | #2,522 | 11.0 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,441 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,594 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,750 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mehdi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mehdi has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mehdi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mehdi, and how old are they?
1,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,024 Americans ever recorded as Mehdi. The median Mehdi alive today is 19 years old; half are between 11 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 3,930 people named Mehdi (15 women and girls, 3,915 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 864 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.5 times 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 46 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 197 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 437 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 321 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,545 babies since 1880, Mehdi is the most given (66% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 27 babies (100%), 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 Mehdi
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 Mehdi and names like it
- Compare Mehdi and MeadeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMehdi peaked in 2012.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mehdi since 1910.
- Persian namesWiktionary’s origin for Mehdi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Mehdi.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mehdi alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.