Maher

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Maher: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Maher: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #829, reached in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#829highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2018–2020

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2018	#5666
2020	#4535

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 27 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2020 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1859 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Maher appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 309 births with the name.

Maher across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Maher's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2020 (1996)	#1132 (2018)	#1859 (2024)	27 of 29	309 (1996–2024)	24 (2017)
England and Wales · Girls	#5666 (2018)	#4535 (2020)	#4535 (2020)	2 of 3	7 (2018–2020)	4 (2020)

Maher by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Maher in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	11	3 of 10	4
2000s	61	9 of 10	7
2010s	152	10 of 10	15
2020sbusiest	85	5 of 10	17

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 17 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Maher appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #829 in Republic of Ireland in 2025.

Maher's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1859	13	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1272	21	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1420	18	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1516	16	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#4535	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1431	17	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1439	17	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1132	24	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1146	24	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2027	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1159	23	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1935	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1920	11	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1756	13	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2613	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1911	11	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1981	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2775	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2741	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#3385	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2418	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2578	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1771	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1799	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1467	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #829, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 24 births, registered in England and Wales in 2017.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2025, and 29 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Maheera · #2008, 13y
Mahek · #835, 23y
Mahera · #2783, 12y
Mahfuz · #1425, 19y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ahnaf · #829, 23y
Aziz · #829, 30y
Hezekiah · #829, 24y
Kush · #829, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aziz · #829, 30y
Kush · #829, 30y
Moosa · #829, 28y
Mujtaba · #829, 30y

Maher was ranked #829 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2025. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Maher and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Maher without appearing here.

Maher moved ahead of

Rodney Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2613 and #2613 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #1756 and #4805.
Morten Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2613 and #2390 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1935 and #4632.
Graeme Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3385 and #2870 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #1981 and #4527.
Barry Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2027 and #2027 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #1146 and #3040.

Moved ahead of Maher

Tadhg Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2020 and #2357 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #2859 and #1174.
Aksel Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1272 and #1461 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1859 and #1132.
Theodor Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1981 and #2544 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #1911 and #1201.
Hunter Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1771 and #2857 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #2578 and #1878.

Moved the opposite way to Maher

Kelly Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Maher went from #2859 to #1272 while Kelly went from #1454 to #3523.
Ole Compare
Between 1999 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Maher went from #2943 to #1420 while Ole went from #1383 to #4789.
Kim Compare
Between 1996 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Maher went from #2020 to #1159 while Kim went from #1168 to #4747.
Tayla Compare
Between 1996 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Maher went from #2020 to #1159 while Tayla went from #1458 to #4747.

Moved the same way as Maher

Aksel Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Maher went from #3385 to #1859 and Aksel from #4052 to #1132.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #829 in Republic of Ireland in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Maher

Maher at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Maher across 2 official records

Maher by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Maher at a glance

Maher across 2 official records

Maher by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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