Mehvish
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mehvish has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 1994. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1994, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Mehvish, 2001
1 in 748,000
Mehvish over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Mehvish?
Mehvish had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2001
- 1 in 748,000
- 5 of 3,742,181 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 360,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2001
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 518,778 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mehvish sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2001 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mehvish. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mehvishs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mehvish was born before 1995 — so the typical Mehvish is around 30 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 70.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 17
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 70.6% of all recorded uses (12).
Is Mehvish 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1994 (6)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Mehvish around the world
Where Mehvish 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 & Wales1996–2015#4,736in 2015
- Scotland1992–1992#641in 1992
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and National Records of Scotland. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Mehvish by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mehvish
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mehvish
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.