Mohab

#6,685 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Mohab has been given to 111 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #6,685 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Mohab, 2025

1 in 255,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Mohab?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,685
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mohab 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mohab. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mohabs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mohab was born before 2018 — so the typical Mohab is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
111
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.1% of all recorded uses (49).

Is Mohab 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
+2,891
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,555
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
92.9%
Peak was 2017 (14)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
56.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,228
2017

Spellings of Mohab

Mohab is not the most common spelling — Johan is, with 41.7% against Mohab's 0.32%.

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.

Mohab around the world

Where Mohab 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
    2010–2024
    #2,922
    in 2024
  • France
    2019–2024
    #6,078
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2015–2019
    #1,925
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Mohab by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,685
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,555
Best rank ever
#6,228
2017
Peak year
2017
14 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
111
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Mohab

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

Sibling names for Mohab

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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