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Maha

#2,764 in 2025Girls' name

Oryx

Maha has been given to 2,019 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #2,764 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 79 recorded.

Babies named Maha, 2025

1 in 53,500

Maha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maha: meaning, origin, and history

Oryx

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maha means

Maha means “oryx”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,019 girls were recorded with the name Maha between 1964 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 79 in 2002; its best national rank was #2,130 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,816 in 2020 to #2,764 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,459 in 2015 to #2,764 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Maha?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 53,500
62 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 25,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,764
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
37,064 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maha sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 37,064 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mahas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maha was born before 2003 — so the typical Maha is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,019
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (556).

Is Maha rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+442
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,052
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+695
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.35×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.5%
Peak was 2002 (79)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,130
2002

Spellings of Maha

Maha is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 46.3% against Maha's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Maha is used

Across 1910–2025, Maha was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 105,091 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 50,000
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 100,000
  6. 6Virginia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Maha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maha around the world

Where Maha ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #622
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2004–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2024–2024
    #736
    in 2024
  • France
    1969–2025
    #1,573
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #794
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1972–2011
    #514
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Maha

People whose public names include Maha, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Maha by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,764
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,052
Best rank ever
#2,130
2002
Peak year
2002
79 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,019
Count in 2025
62

Names similar to Maha

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MahiMahalaMahiraMahaliaMahsaMahamMahinaMaheenMahliaMahikaRahaMahimaMahnoorMahaylaMahariLeahaMahiaAleahaMahekMahoganyMahlaniMahyaMahraZaha

Names with a curve like Maha

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Maha, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

EmanAnnastasiaHananKeziaNohemiZipporahKalenaElisiaAyshaSairaIndiraTalya

Sibling names for Maha

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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