Mahaan
#9,394 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mahaan has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 2021. In 2025 it ranked #9,394 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Mahaan, 2025
1 in 414,000
Mahaan over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Mahaan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,394
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mahaan sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mahaan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mahaans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mahaan was born before 2023 — so the typical Mahaan is around 2 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 22
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (22).
Is Mahaan 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 88.9%
- Peak was 2023 (9)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Mahaan
Mahaan is not the most common spelling — Ayaan is, with 16.1% against Mahaan's 0.04%.
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.
Mahaan around the world
Where Mahaan 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 & Wales2007–2023#4,992in 2023
- Canada2022–2022#2,147in 2022
- South Australia2011–2011#784in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Mahaan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mahaan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mahaan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.