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Mahir

#1,405 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly wealth, possessions, commodities, goods, through مَاهِر

Mahir has been given to 1,658 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #1,405 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 130 recorded.

Babies named Mahir, 2025

1 in 25,500

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mahir: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly wealth, possessions, commodities, goods, through مَاهِر

Arabic

What Mahir means

Mahir belongs to the name family reached through Mahir → مَاهِر. Its meaning is “wealth, possessions, commodities, goods”.

Origin, language, and formation

Mahir is used in Albanian and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include مَاهِر.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,658 boys were recorded with the name Mahir between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 130 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,405 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,628 in 2020 to #1,405 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,316 in 2015 to #1,405 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.

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How common is Mahir?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 25,500
130 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 13,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,405
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
17,677 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mahir 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 17,677 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mahir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mahirs were born

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

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
41.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,658
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 41.2% of all recorded uses (683).

Is Mahir 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
+80
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+223
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+911
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.28×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (130)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,405
2025

Spellings of Mahir

Mahir is not the most common spelling — Mario is, with 33.3% against Mahir's 0.37%.

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 Mahir is used

Across 2016–2025, Mahir was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 826 boys, against 1 in 12,119 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

1121 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 826
  2. 2North Dakota1 in 7,143
  3. 3Ohio1 in 7,692
  4. 4Washington1 in 7,692
  5. 5New York1 in 12,500
  6. 6Georgia1 in 20,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 50,000
  8. 8California1 in 100,000

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.

Mahir around the world

Where Mahir 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
    #593
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2015–2025
    #509
    in 2025
  • France
    1973–2025
    #644
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #622
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1996–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Mahir by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,405
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 223
Best rank ever
#1,405
2025
Peak year
2025
130 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,658
Count in 2025
130

Names similar to Mahir

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

MaherMahdiMahkiMahadMihirTahirJahirSahirMahziMahlonMahkaiMahmoudZahirMahariBashirMahmudZyhirMahanMahamedMahmoodMahidYahirHashirAshir

Sibling names for Mahir

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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