Mahavir

Boys' name

A great hero

Mahavir has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2018. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2018, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Mahavir, 2018

1 in 703,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mahavir: meaning, origin, and history

A great hero

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mahavir means

Mahavir means “a great hero”, associated with mahāvīra.

Origin, language, and formation

Mahavir is used in English.

Mahavir comes through Sanskrit महावीर.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Mahavir between 2018 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2018; its best national rank was #13,402 in 2018.

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.

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How common is Mahavir?

Mahavir had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018: 1 in 703,000; 5 of 3,516,853 births
Among boys only: 1 in 363,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2018: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 487,541 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Mahavir 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 2018 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 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mahavir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mahavirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mahavir was born before 2018 — so the typical Mahavir is around 7 today.

Median birth year: 2018; About 7 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Mahavir 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2018 (5)
Years since peak: 7; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #13,402; 2018

Spellings of Mahavir

Mahavir is not the most common spelling — Mahir is, with 99.7% against Mahavir's 0.30%.

Mahir99.7%1,658
Mahavir0.30%5

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.

Mahavir by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #13,402; 2018
Peak year: 2018; 5 that year
First recorded: 2018
Last recorded: 2018
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Mahavir

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

Mahbir Mahlil Mahed Mahalo Teghvir Mahkari Mahleek Mahammad Mahkhi Mahrus Mahsiah Mahbeer Maheen Mahaan Mahadev Mahilan Mahaad Mahlek Mahde Yuvir Mahue Mahil Mahyar Maheer

Sibling names for Mahavir

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

Oaklyn Keily Zaylee Aislinn Khaleesi Emberly Landry Avah

For a brother

Torin Kamryn Levon Bilal Zaid Brecken Linus Joziah

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