Mahdi

maleStatistical record

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

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

Mahdi: Recorded since 1968, it reached #324 in 2001, and it stood at #678 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
66times a registrar ranked it
57years from first to last
#324highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#784
1997	#964
1998	#958
1999	#776
2000	#1096
2001	#947
2002	#781
2003	#710
2004	#906
2005	#653
2006	#677
2007	#526
2008	#604
2009	#648
2010	#678
2011	#652
2012	#640
2013	#647
2014	#670
2015	#727
2016	#641
2017	#761
2018	#763
2019	#686
2020	#812
2021	#854
2022	#810
2023	#691
2024	#678

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 33 of the 56 years from 1968 to 2023.

In 2023: #519 among boys in Norway, #691 among boys in England and Wales, #770 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1968–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1968
First recorded at #465 among boys in Norway in 1968 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1968–2023
Highest recorded position: #324 among boys in Norway, in 2001 (recorded 1968–2023).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #678 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Mahdi appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 33 years beginning in 1968, and has registered 212 births with the name.

Mahdi across 3 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.

Mahdi'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
Norway · Boys	#465 (1968)	#324 (2001)	#519 (2023)	33 of 56	212 (1968–2023)	13 (1991)
England and Wales · Boys	#784 (1996)	#526 (2007)	#678 (2024)	29 of 29	1,124 (1996–2024)	60 (2007)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#715 (2014)	#657 (2022)	#770 (2023)	4 of 10	13 (2014–2023)	4 (2022)

Mahdi by decade in Norway · 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 Mahdi in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	6	1 of 10	6
1970s	19	4 of 10	5
1980s	52	9 of 10	6
1990sbusiest	53	7 of 10	8
2000s	70	9 of 10	8
2010s	8	2 of 10	4
2020s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Norway · Boys, the 1990s were its busiest decade — the 7 years of it this list covers, averaging 8 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Mahdi 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 3 regions, from 1968 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #324 in Norway in 2001.

Mahdi'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	#678	54	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#691	50	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#810	39	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#854	36	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#812	38	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#686	49	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#763	43	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#761	45	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#641	55	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#727	45	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#670	50	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#647	52	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#640	54	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#652	50	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#678	46	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#648	49	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#604	52	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#526	60	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#677	40	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#653	40	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#906	23	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#710	30	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#781	24	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#947	17	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1096	13	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#776	21	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#958	15	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#964	15	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#784	19	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#519	4	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#522	4	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#544	4	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#347	12	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#452	7	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#520	5	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#539	4	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#455	6	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#501	5	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#379	8	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#324	11	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#332	12	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#563	4	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#473	6	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#381	10	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#426	8	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#432	8	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#337	13	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#634	4	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#633	4	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#550	6	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#628	4	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#587	5	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#590	5	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#594	5	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#443	9	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#504	7	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#508	7	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#628	4	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#561	5	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#596	4	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#498	6	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#465	6	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#657	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#710	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#715	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
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 3 registrars between 1968 and 2024, ranked in 48 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #324, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 60 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 46 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.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Andrej · #324, 43y
Roseanna · #325, 43y
Jamila · #322, 51y
Rabia · #326, 44y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Ole-Christian · #324, 25y
Alette · #323, 37y
Henrietta · #325, 36y
Lelia · #325, 19y

Mahdi was ranked #324 in Norway · Boys in 2001. 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.

Mahdi 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 Mahdi without appearing here.

Mahdi moved ahead of

Barry Compare
In 2004 they stood at #906 and #815 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #653 and #1617.
Wayne Compare
In 2010 they stood at #678 and #678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #652 and #1303.
Ashleigh Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1096 and #881 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #947 and #1595.
Mitchell Compare
In 2018 they stood at #763 and #763 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #686 and #1217.

Moved ahead of Mahdi

Sondre Compare
In 1970 they stood at #498 and #510 in Norway · Boys; by 1971 that had become #596 and #220.
Lachlan Compare
In 1996 they stood at #784 and #1040 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #964 and #678.
Nathan Compare
In 2012 they stood at #347 and #349 in Norway · Boys; by 2013 that had become #544 and #263.
Noel Compare
In 2012 they stood at #347 and #370 in Norway · Boys; by 2013 that had become #544 and #264.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

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 3 regions, from 1968 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #324 in Norway in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Mahdi

Mahdi at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Mahdi across 3 official records

Mahdi by decade in Norway · Boys

Mahdi appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

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Mahdi moved ahead of

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Mahdi at a glance

Mahdi across 3 official records

Mahdi by decade in Norway · Boys

Mahdi appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Mahdi

Mahdi and the names beside it

Mahdi moved ahead of

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