Mahadev

#9,395 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Mahadeva

Mahadev has been given to 50 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #9,395 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Mahadev, 2025

1 in 414,000

Mahadev over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mahadev: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Mahadeva

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mahadev means

Mahadev is a form of Mahadeva.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mahadeva.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 50 boys were recorded with the name Mahadev between 2006 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2024; its best national rank was #8,100 in 2024.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,287 in 2015 to #9,395 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Mahadev?

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: #9,395; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 287,238 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Mahadev sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mahadev. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mahadevs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mahadev was born before 2022 — so the typical Mahadev is around 3 today.

Median birth year: 2022; About 3 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 54.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 50; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 54.0% of all recorded uses (27).

Is Mahadev 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: −1,295; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: +3,892; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.60×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 80.0%; Peak was 2024 (10)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,100; 2024

Spellings of Mahadev

Mahadev is not the most common spelling — Mahad is, with 94.0% against Mahadev's 6.0%.

Mahad94.0%790
Mahadev6.0%50

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.

Mahadev around the world

Where Mahadev 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
2013–2023
#4,992
in 2023
South Australia
2011–2011
#784
in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mahadev by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #9,395
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #8,100; 2024
Peak year: 2024; 10 that year
First recorded: 2006
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 50
Count in 2025: 8

Names similar to Mahadev

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

Mahkari Maheer Mahaad Mahaan Mahamud Mahonri Mahid Mahmood Mahamed Mahan Mahalo Mahi Mahith Mahmud Mahilan Mahari Mahsiah Mahbeer Mahadi Mahdy Mahleek Mahendra Mahkel Mahkai

Sibling names for Mahadev

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

For a sister

Annabell Abagail Leonor Karleigh Rhianna Adelle Keren Kendyl

For a brother

Aaden Kale Evans Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah

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