How Many People Are Named Mahdi?
people named Mahdi are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 144,824 people in the US has this name
Based on 2,398 babies named Mahdi in Social Security records from 1959 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
107 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "guided one" in Arabic.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Mahdi in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Mahdi alive today is about 15 years old, and 88% are under 30. Half of them were between 7 and 22 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Mahdi first appears in the records in 1959 and was given most often in 2024, to 107 babies. In 2025, 104 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1959 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Mahdi has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,605, in 2024. In 2025 it ranked #1,629.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,629 |
| Best rank | #1,605 (2024) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,825 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Mahdi alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Mahdi were born in Michigan than in any other state: about 590 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Mahdi was given 16.8 times as often in Michigan and 3 times in New York.
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