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Maher

#2,741 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Mahir

Maher has been given to 1,156 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #2,741 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 47 recorded.

Babies named Maher, 2025

1 in 70,500

Maher over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maher: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Mahir

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maher means

Maher is a alternate transcription of Mahir.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Maher → Mahir → مَاهِر. The family’s proposed meaning is “wealth, possessions, commodities, goods”, recorded in Arabic with the source elements mhrt.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mahir.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,156 boys were recorded with the name Maher between 1963 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 47 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,464 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,311 in 2020 to #2,741 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,129 in 2015 to #2,741 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Maher?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 70,500
47 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 36,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,741
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
48,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maher 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 48,893 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maher. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mahers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maher was born before 2006 — so the typical Maher is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,156
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.2% of all recorded uses (314).

Is Maher 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
+1,200
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+570
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+388
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.27×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (47)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,464
1983

Spellings of Maher

Maher is not the most common spelling — Mateo is, with 30.2% against Maher'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 Maher is used

Across 1910–2025, Maher was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 459,655 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 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. Maher has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maher around the world

Where Maher 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
    #1,705
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1969–2025
    #608
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,390
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Maher by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,741
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 570
Best rank ever
#2,464
1983
Peak year
2025
47 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,156
Count in 2025
47

Names similar to Maher

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

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Sibling names for Maher

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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