Mekhai
Mekhai was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,327 among boys’ names; 538 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mekhai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mekhai?
#6,327 among boys’ names, 2025
Mekhai fell from #3,951 in 2015 to #6,327 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.1 to 8.2 per million.
38 babies in 2017, the peak
Mekhai peaked in 2017, when 38 boys were given it, #3,106 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,327 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 12 | #7,107 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 19 | #5,181 | 11.1 |
| 2022 | 18 | #5,350 | 10.3 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,184 | 14.3 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,334 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,277 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 19 | #5,038 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,106 | 20.5 |
| 2016 | 30 | #3,653 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #3,951 | 14.1 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,627 | 8.3 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,562 | 11.1 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,339 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,769 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,396 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,125 | 12.6 |
| 2008 | 35 | #3,264 | 17.2 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,138 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,956 | 12.2 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,893 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,954 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,915 | 11.1 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,870 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,298 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,556 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,413 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,152 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mekhai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mekhai has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mekhai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mekhai, and how old are they?
An estimated 532 Americans named Mekhai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 337 people named Mekhai (12 women and girls, 325 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 438 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 15,329 babies since 1880, Mekhai is the fourth most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 240 babies (5.8%), the third most given that year.
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 Mekhai
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 Mekhai and names like it
- Compare Mekhai and MekhiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMekhai peaked in 2017.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mekhai since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Mekhai.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mekhai alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.