Mehdi

maleStatistical record

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

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

Mehdi: Recorded since 1959, it reached #368 in 1980, and it stood at #1,199 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
73times a registrar ranked it
66years from first to last
#368highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1168
1997	#874
1998	#958
1999	#1505
2000	#1002
2001	#1467
2002	#1253
2003	#1011
2004	#999
2005	#1456
2006	#1224
2007	#1440
2008	#1294
2009	#1008
2010	#1109
2011	#1087
2012	#1086
2013	#1294
2014	#1178
2015	#1327
2016	#1271
2017	#1398
2018	#1324
2019	#1655
2020	#1492
2021	#1688
2022	#1179
2023	#1272
2024	#1199

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 44 of the 64 years from 1959 to 2022.

In 2022: #485 among boys in Norway, #1179 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1959–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1959
First recorded at #395 among boys in Norway in 1959 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1959–2022
Highest recorded position: #368 among boys in Norway, in 1980 (recorded 1959–2022).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1199 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Mehdi appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 44 years beginning in 1959, and has registered 261 births with the name.

Mehdi 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.

Mehdi'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	#395 (1959)	#368 (1980)	#485 (2022)	44 of 64	261 (1959–2022)	12 (1980)
England and Wales · Boys	#1168 (1996)	#874 (1997)	#1199 (2024)	29 of 29	516 (1996–2024)	26 (2009)

Mehdi 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 Mehdi in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	6	1 of 10	6
1960s	29	5 of 10	6
1970s	26	6 of 10	4
1980sbusiest	66	9 of 10	7
1990s	65	10 of 10	7
2000s	43	7 of 10	6
2010s	22	5 of 10	4
2020s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Norway · Boys, the 1980s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 7 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Mehdi 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 1959 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #368 in Norway in 1980.

Mehdi'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	#1199	23	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1272	21	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1179	23	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1688	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1492	16	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1655	14	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1324	19	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1398	18	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1271	21	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1327	19	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1178	22	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1294	19	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1086	25	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1087	24	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1109	24	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1008	26	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1294	18	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1440	15	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1224	17	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1456	13	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#999	20	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1011	18	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1253	12	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1467	9	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1002	15	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1505	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#958	15	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#874	17	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1168	11	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#485	4	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#510	4	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#510	4	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#531	4	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#507	5	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#510	5	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#564	4	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#552	4	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#516	5	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#410	8	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#490	5	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#371	9	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#402	8	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#567	4	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#580	4	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#418	8	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#420	8	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#504	6	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#492	6	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#430	8	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#469	7	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#454	8	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#536	6	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#433	9	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#552	6	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#632	4	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#539	6	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#555	6	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#597	5	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#501	7	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#381	11	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#368	12	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#584	5	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#626	4	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#620	4	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#619	4	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#597	4	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#543	5	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#452	7	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#468	6	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#530	4	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#429	7	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#443	5	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#395	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1959 and 2024, ranked in 56 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #368, first reached in 1980.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 26 births, registered in England and Wales in 2009.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 37 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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Meher · #1198, 22y
Mehmed · #1906, 10y

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.

Georgios · #365, 51y
Hatice · #377, 53y
Hanan · #339, 54y
Maryan · #336, 55y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Dragan · #370, 26y
Joao · #370, 54y
Malika · #370, 44y
Abbas · #365, 55y

Mehdi was ranked #368 in Norway · Boys in 1980. 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.

Mehdi 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 Mehdi without appearing here.

Mehdi moved ahead of

Shannon Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1467 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1253 and #3225.
Graeme Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1505 and #1281 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #1002 and #2501.
Brent Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1456 and #1095 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1224 and #2538.
Jon Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1688 and #1688 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1179 and #2320.

Moved ahead of Mehdi

Hunter Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1224 and #1643 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1440 and #926.
Hudson Compare
In 2004 they stood at #999 and #1160 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1456 and #982.
Tadhg Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1178 and #1630 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #1327 and #996.
Oliver Compare
In 1989 they stood at #433 and #434 in Norway · Boys; by 1990 that had become #536 and #231.

Moved the same way as Mehdi

Frode Compare
Between 1959 and 2008 in Norway · Boys, Mehdi went from #395 to #564 and Frode from #40 to #551.
Glenn Compare
Between 1959 and 2008 in Norway · Boys, Mehdi went from #395 to #564 and Glenn from #177 to #471.
Raymond Compare
Between 1959 and 2008 in Norway · Boys, Mehdi went from #395 to #564 and Raymond from #161 to #487.
Kelly Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Mehdi went from #874 to #1272 and Kelly from #1454 to #3523.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
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 2 regions, from 1959 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #368 in Norway in 1980. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Mehdi

Mehdi at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Mehdi across 2 official records

Mehdi by decade in Norway · Boys

Mehdi appears in

Popularity data

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Mehdi at a glance

Mehdi across 2 official records

Mehdi by decade in Norway · Boys

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Also first recorded in the 1950s

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Mehdi and the names beside it

Mehdi moved ahead of

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