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Mahdi

#1,629 in 2025Boys' name

Guided one

Mahdi has been given to 2,398 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #1,629 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 107 recorded.

Babies named Mahdi, 2025

1 in 31,900

Mahdi over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mahdi: meaning, origin, and history

Guided one

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mahdi means

Mahdi means “guided one”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,398 boys were recorded with the name Mahdi between 1959 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 107 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,605 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,180 in 2020 to #1,629 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,635 in 2015 to #1,629 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.

How common is Mahdi?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 31,900
104 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 16,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,629
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
22,096 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mahdi 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 22,096 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mahdi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mahdis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mahdi was born before 2011 — so the typical Mahdi is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,398
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.4% of all recorded uses (824).

Is Mahdi 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
−24
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+551
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.06×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
97.2%
Peak was 2024 (107)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,605
2024

Spellings of Mahdi

Mahdi is not the most common spelling — Makai is, with 24.4% against Mahdi's 6.3%.

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 Mahdi is used

Across 2016–2025, Mahdi was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 1,724 boys, against 1 in 17,380 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

158 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 1,724
  2. 2New York1 in 11,111
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 50,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 50,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 50,000

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.

Mahdi around the world

Where Mahdi 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
    1996–2025
    #668
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2023
    #728
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2014–2023
    #770
    in 2023
  • France
    1950–2025
    #493
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2023
    #496
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #772
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1994–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Notable people named Mahdi

People whose public names include Mahdi, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Mahdi by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,629
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 551
Best rank ever
#1,605
2024
Peak year
2024
107 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,398
Count in 2025
104

Names similar to Mahdi

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

MahirMaherMahkiMahadMahlonMahmoudMehdiMahziBohdiMahkaiMahariMahmudMahanMahamedMahmoodMahidMahinMahlikMaheshMaheerMahiMahamadouMahaadMahdy

Names with a curve like Mahdi

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mahdi, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

TahaKainoaYehoshuaShivCiaranShaanArionKiranMicaiahMuhammedZakariaSaif

Sibling names for Mahdi

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

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