Mohit — boys' name
432 babies named Mohit in U.S. Social Security records since 1976, with the highest year being 1996. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
39% of everyone ever named Mohit was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Mohit in 1996 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Mohit
The Social Security Administration has registered 432 babies named Mohit between 1976 and 2021, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mohit currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 20 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Mohit performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 167 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Mohit shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 27 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Mohit in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Mohit in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 432 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Mohit at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Mohit popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–1976
- Peak year (1996)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 46 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
432 total births across 46 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1996 with 20 births in a single year.
Mohit by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 167 births that decade — 39% of Mohit's all-time total
Mohit decade highlights
- Peak decade 167 births
- Runner-up 137 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Mohit's strongest decade
167 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 39% of all-time use.
Mohit by state
Where Mohit concentrates geographically — total births since 1976
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 27 | 6.3% |
| #2 | New York | | 6 | 1.4% |
| #3 | New Jersey | | 5 | 1.2% |
27 of 432 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 6.3% of nationwide
- New York 1.4% of nationwide
- New Jersey 1.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 6.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1976–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.