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Mahira

#2,230 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Mahir

Mahira has been given to 829 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #2,230 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 85 recorded.

Babies named Mahira, 2025

1 in 39,900

Mahira over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mahira: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Mahir

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mahira means

Mahira is a feminine form of Mahir.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Mahira → 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, 829 girls were recorded with the name Mahira between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 85 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,226 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,050 in 2020 to #2,230 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,670 in 2015 to #2,230 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 Mahira?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 39,900
83 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 19,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,230
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
27,687 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mahira sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 5001%

Put another way: gather 27,687 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mahira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mahiras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mahira was born before 2020 — so the typical Mahira is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
50.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
829
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 50.2% of all recorded uses (416).

Is Mahira 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
−4
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+820
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,440
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.77×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
97.6%
Peak was 2024 (85)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,226
2024

Spellings of Mahira

Mahira is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 56.4% against Mahira's 0.08%.

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 Mahira is used

Across 2016–2025, Mahira was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 24,342 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 7,692
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 16,667
  3. 3Virginia1 in 16,667
  4. 4Michigan1 in 25,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 25,000
  6. 6California1 in 33,333
  7. 7Illinois1 in 33,333
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 50,000

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.

Mahira around the world

Where Mahira 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
    #573
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2025–2025
    #539
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2023–2023
    #856
    in 2023
  • France
    1994–2025
    #921
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #963
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Mahira by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,230
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 820
Best rank ever
#2,226
2024
Peak year
2024
85 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
829
Count in 2025
83

Names similar to Mahira

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

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Sibling names for Mahira

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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