girls:
521 births since 1998
#5195 (9th percentile)
boys:
36 births since 2011
#4550 (1st percentile)
overall:
557 births since 1998
#7182 (7th percentile)
The name Mehar is the #7,182 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 557 recorded births since 1998. This represents the 7.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,195 (9.1% percentile) for all time with 521 births since 1998. For boys, it ranks #4,550 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 36 births since 2011.
Mehar first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1998 (1998 for girls and 2011 for boys). Birth data for Mehar is available in 24 out of the 26 years between 1998 and 2023 (24 years for girls and 6 years for boys). 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.
The name Mehar has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 93.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Mehar reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 4.7% percentile (ranked #913) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 28 births per million (ranked 4.7% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Mehar ranks #913 for girls (3.6% percentile) with 22 births per million, which is 80.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Mehar reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #917) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mehar".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Mehar. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.5% confident that Mehar is pronounced as MEH-hahr, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is meh-HAHR, at 35.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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