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Mohini

Girls' name

Perplexing, enchanting

Mohini has been given to 158 babies in the U.S. since 1978. 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 1996, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Mohini, 2023

1 in 414,000

Mohini over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mohini: meaning, origin, and history

Perplexing, enchanting

Sanskrit

What Mohini means

Mohini means “perplexing, enchanting”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Mohini is used in Hinduism, Hindi and Marathi.

Origin, language, and formation

Mohini is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 158 girls were recorded with the name Mohini between 1978 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1996; its best national rank was #6,621 in 1996.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mohini?

Mohini had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
287,205 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mohini 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 2023 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 287,205 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mohini. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mohinis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mohini was born before 1998 — so the typical Mohini is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
47.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
45.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
158
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 47.5% of all recorded uses (75).

Is Mohini 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1996 (14)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
49.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,621
1996

Spellings of Mohini

Mohini is not the most common spelling — Mahina is, with 81.3% against Mohini's 18.7%.

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 Mohini is used

Across 1910–2025, Mohini was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Mohini has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mohini around the world

Where Mohini 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
    1996–2007
    #4,294
    in 2007
  • France
    2000–2000
    #4,245
    in 2000

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

Mohini by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,621
1996
Peak year
1996
14 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
158
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mohini

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

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Sibling names for Mohini

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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