boys:
2.2k births since 1959
#2694 (41st percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1959
#5605 (28th percentile)
The name Mahdi is the #5,605 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,187 recorded births since 1959. This represents the 27.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,694 (41.2% percentile) for all time with 2,187 births since 1959.
Mahdi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1959 (first recorded for boys in 1959). Birth data for Mahdi is available in 50 out of the 65 years between 1959 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Mahdi reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 10.3% percentile (ranked #812) with 48 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 48 births per million (ranked 10.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Mahdi is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #830 (8.9% percentile) with 47 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mahdi".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Mahdi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.4% confident that Mahdi is pronounced as MAH-dee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MUH-dee, at 11.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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