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Mehdi

#4,008 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Persian and Arabic origin

Mehdi has been given to 1,024 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #4,008 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Mehdi, 2025

1 in 123,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mehdi: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Persian and Arabic origin

Persian and Arabic

What Mehdi means

Mehdi is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Mehdi is used in English, Albanian, Azerbaijani and German. Its origins include Persian and Arabic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Mehdi is pronounced /ˈmɛdiː/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,024 boys were recorded with the name Mehdi between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 2012; its best national rank was #2,522 in 1979.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,227 in 2020 to #4,008 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,141 in 2015 to #4,008 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 Mehdi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 63,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,008
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mehdi 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mehdi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mehdis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mehdi was born before 2007 — so the typical Mehdi is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,024
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Choose a decade

2000s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (285).

Is Mehdi 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
−61
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+219
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+133
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.08×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
73.0%
Peak was 2012 (37)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,522
1979

Spellings of Mehdi

Mehdi is not the most common spelling — Mekhi is, with 57.1% against Mehdi's 4.7%.

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 Mehdi is used

Across 1910–2025, Mehdi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 426,584 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6New York1 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. Mehdi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mehdi around the world

Where Mehdi 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
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    1955–2025
    #296
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2022
    #457
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,071
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1991–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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

Mehdi by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,008
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 219
Best rank ever
#2,522
1979
Peak year
2012
37 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,024
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Mehdi

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

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Sibling names for Mehdi

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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