Mehwish
#14,338 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mehwish has been given to 78 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #14,338 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Mehwish, 2025
1 in 553,000
Mehwish 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Mehwish?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #14,338
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mehwish sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mehwish. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mehwishs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mehwish was born before 2003 — so the typical Mehwish is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 34.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 61.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 78
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 34.6% of all recorded uses (27).
Is Mehwish 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
- +327
- Places climbed
- 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
- 75.0%
- Peak was 2023 (8)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.3% average annual change
Mehwish around the world
Where Mehwish 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 & Wales1996–2025#2,278in 2025
- Canada2020–2024#3,457in 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.
Mehwish by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mehwish
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mehwish
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.