Mahad
#6,315 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mahad has been given to 790 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #6,315 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 42 recorded.
Babies named Mahad, 2025
1 in 237,000
Mahad 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Mahad?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 122,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,315
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mahad 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mahad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mahads were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mahad was born before 2011 — so the typical Mahad is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 37.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 86.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 790
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 37.1% of all recorded uses (293).
Is Mahad 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
- +39
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,437
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,953
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.61×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 33.3%
- Peak was 2017 (42)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.7% average annual change
Spellings of Mahad
Mahad is not the most common spelling — Chad is, with 71.7% against Mahad's 0.24%.
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 Mahad is used
Across 1910–2025, Mahad was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 357,754 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Minnesota1 in 33,333
- 2California1 in —
- 3New York1 in —
- 4Ohio1 in —
- 5Pennsylvania1 in —
- 6Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Mahad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Mahad around the world
Where Mahad 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 & Wales1996–2025#1,466in 2025
- Ireland2006–2012#718in 2012
- France2010–2021#5,609in 2021
- Norway1880–2022#457in 2022
- Canada1991–2024#1,817in 2024
- South Australia1998–2011#784in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Mahad by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mahad
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mahad
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.