Mahdi

Where Mahdi comes from

Borrowed from Arabic مَهْدِيّ (mahdiyy, “guided one”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Mahdi
  • Arabic
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1959
    First appearance
    #3,988 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2024
    Peak, #1,599
    107 babies named Mahdi — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.