Mihir
Mihir was given to 30 boys in 2025, #3,722 among boys’ names; 1,486 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,460 Americans named Mihir and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 12 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mihir by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mihir?
#3,722 among boys’ names, 2025
Mihir fell from #2,842 in 2015 to #3,722 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 21.9 to 17.6 per million.
82 babies in 2002, the peak
Mihir peaked in 2002, when 82 boys were given it, #1,523 among boys’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #3,722 | 17.6 |
| 2024 | 30 | #3,753 | 17.4 |
| 2023 | 21 | #4,835 | 12.3 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,389 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,089 | 14.9 |
| 2020 | 34 | #3,315 | 19.7 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,960 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 28 | #3,848 | 15.4 |
| 2017 | 30 | #3,638 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 33 | #3,409 | 17.4 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #2,842 | 21.9 |
| 2014 | 51 | #2,479 | 26.6 |
| 2013 | 32 | #3,381 | 16.9 |
| 2012 | 40 | #2,939 | 21.1 |
| 2011 | 53 | #2,392 | 27.9 |
| 2010 | 49 | #2,536 | 25.5 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,177 | 31.3 |
| 2008 | 43 | #2,812 | 21.1 |
| 2007 | 76 | #1,888 | 36.6 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,093 | 30.7 |
| 2005 | 79 | #1,702 | 39.6 |
| 2004 | 71 | #1,777 | 35.8 |
| 2003 | 65 | #1,831 | 32.9 |
| 2002 | 82 | #1,523 | 42.2 |
| 2001 | 59 | #1,880 | 30.4 |
| 2000 | 37 | #2,554 | 18.8 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,438 | 19.3 |
| 1998 | 41 | #2,222 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,682 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 28 | #2,719 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 23 | #3,061 | 12.1 |
| 1994 | 26 | #2,818 | 13.5 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,155 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,513 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,756 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,112 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,429 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,463 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,668 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,166 | 4.3 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,412 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,926 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,178 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,447 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,175 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mihir a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mihir has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mihir: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mihir, and how old are they?
1,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,486 Americans ever recorded as Mihir. The median Mihir alive today is 20 years old; half are between 12 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 2,395 people named Mihir (6 women and girls, 2,389 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,312 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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 | 20 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 173 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 862 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 405 |
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 Mihir born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #1,773 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,827 | 0.5× |
Where Mihir is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mihir is most over-represented in California: since 1976 it was given 1.7 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 boys’ 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 Mihir 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,384 babies since 1880, Mihir is the most given (62% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 149 babies (20%), the second 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 Mihir
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 Mihir and names like it
- Compare Mihir and MirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMihir peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mihir since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Mihir.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mihir alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.