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Mahayla vs Mahdi

American parents have registered 2,398 Mahdis since 1880, against 925 Mahaylas. Mahdi is still ahead, with 104 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mahayla against Mahdi, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mahayla Mahdi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Mahdi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1959 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2001, when Mahayla had 36 and Mahdi had 46.

Side by side

  Mahayla Mahdi
Total US births 9252,398
Most in one year 57107
Babies in 2025 12104
Estimated living today 9202,400
Median age today 1614
Peak year 20102024
Best rank 2,976th girls1,599th boys
Rank in 2025 8,362nd1,621st
First recorded 19941959
Girls / boys 925 / 00 / 2,398

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Mahaylas alive today are over 16; half the Mahdis are over 14. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Mahayla and Mahdi.