Mahari
#4,511 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mahari has been given to 727 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #4,511 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 34 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 55% girls, 45% boys all-time.
Babies named Mahari, 2025
1 in 107,000
Mahari 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Mahari over time
In 2025, Mahari went to 46% girls and 54% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Mahari?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 107,000
- 31 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 51,800
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,511
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 74,127 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mahari 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 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mahari. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Maharis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mahari was born before 2017 — so the typical Mahari is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 48.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 397
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 48.1% of all recorded uses (191).
Is Mahari 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
- +2,315
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +101
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,758
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.21×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 91.2%
- Peak was 2017 (34)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.5% average annual change
Spellings of Mahari
Mahari is not the most common spelling — Shari is, with 29.3% against Mahari's 0.28%.
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 Mahari is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Mahari was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 301,385 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 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. Mahari has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Mahari is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Mahari was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,617,358 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in —
- 2North Carolina1 in —
- 3Texas1 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. Mahari has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Mahari by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Mahari
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mahari
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.