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Mihika vs Mihir

American parents have registered 1,486 Mihirs since 1880, against 691 Mihikas. But in 2025 it was Mihika that was commoner, 32 babies to 30.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mihika against Mihir, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mihika Mihir

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

Of the 45 years in which either name was published, Mihir for 40 years and Mihika for 5 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Mihika Mihir
Total US births 6911,486
Most in one year 4482
Babies in 2025 3230
Estimated living today 6901,500
Median age today 1219
Peak year 20092002
Best rank 3,619th girls1,514th boys
Rank in 2025 4,352nd3,658th
First recorded 19961976
Girls / boys 691 / 00 / 1,486

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 Mihirs alive today are over 19; half the Mihikas are over 12. That is 7 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Mihika Mihir
England and Wales 63199

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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