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Mehran

#5,331 in 2025Boys' name

Transliteration of مهران

Mehran has been given to 320 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #5,331 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Mehran, 2025

1 in 184,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mehran: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of مهران

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mehran means

Mehran is a transliteration of مهران.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Persian مهران (mehrân), from Middle Persian mtrʾn (mihrān).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Mehran (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Mehran is used in English.

Mehran comes through Persian مهران and Middle Persian mtrʾn.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include مهران and مهر.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 320 boys were recorded with the name Mehran between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,948 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,506 in 2020 to #5,331 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,853 in 2015 to #5,331 in 2025.

How common is Mehran?

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 boys only
1 in 94,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,331
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

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

When Mehrans were born

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

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
37.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
320
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (120).

Is Mehran 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
−1,383
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,175
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,522
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.80×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
64.3%
Peak was 2024 (28)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,948
2024

Spellings of Mehran

Mehran is not the most common spelling — Terran is, with 16.5% against Mehran's 3.4%.

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 Mehran is used

Across 1910–2025, Mehran was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,294,706 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Mehran has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mehran around the world

Where Mehran 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
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • France
    1992–2025
    #2,502
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mehran by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,331
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,175
Best rank ever
#3,948
2024
Peak year
2024
28 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
320
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Mehran

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

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Sibling names for Mehran

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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