Mehr

#6,471 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Mithra

Mehr has been given to 310 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #6,471 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Mehr, 2025

1 in 184,000

Mehr over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mehr: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Mithra

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mehr means

Mehr is a form of Mithra.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Mehr → Mithra. The family’s meaning is “oath, covenant, agreement”, recorded in the naming reference for Mithra.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mithra.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 310 girls were recorded with the name Mehr between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2019; its best national rank was #5,401 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,429 in 2020 to #6,471 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,314 in 2015 to #6,471 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Mehr?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 184,000; 18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 89,300; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #6,471; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 127,662 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Mehr 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mehr. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mehrs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mehr was born before 2017 — so the typical Mehr is around 8 today.

Median birth year: 2017; About 8 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 41.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 98.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 310; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 41.6% of all recorded uses (129).

Is Mehr 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: +369; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: −1,042; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: +2,843; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.50×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 75.0%; Peak was 2019 (24)
Years since peak: 6; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 26.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,401; 2019

Spellings of Mehr

Mehr is not the most common spelling — Merry is, with 16.1% against Mehr's 0.48%.

Merry16.1%10,369
Meta9.7%6,211
Meg8.3%5,321
Neha6.8%4,351
Meera6.6%4,259
Merri4.9%3,170
Meri3.9%2,502
Maha3.1%2,019

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 Mehr is used

Across 1910–2025, Mehr was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 584,299 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2New Jersey1 in —

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. Mehr has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mehr around the world

Where Mehr 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
1997–2025
#1,892
in 2025
Canada
2009–2024
#1,469
in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Mehr by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #6,471
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 1,042
Best rank ever: #5,401; 2019
Peak year: 2019; 24 that year
First recorded: 2000
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 310
Count in 2025: 18

Names similar to Mehr

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

Mehar Meher Meha Mehak Mehlani Mehek Mehreen Mehana Mehgan Mehnaz Mehwish Mehnoor Mehrish Mehrin Mehan Mehra Mehtab Mehrmah Mehrima Mehza Mehvish Mehret Mehjabeen Mehjabin

Sibling names for Mehr

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

For a sister

Annabell Karleigh Rhianna Adelle Keren Kendyl Anabel Hayleigh

For a brother

Hamilton Kale Aaden Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah Jorden

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