Mekhi
Last seen for girls in 2014 at #16,513 · #1,169 for boys in 2025, 176 births
Given to boys 99.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2005 · 861 births
- Debut · boys
- 12 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 12,354since 1995
Mekhi over time
Rank among boys' names. Mekhi has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,169 | 176 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,023 | 218 | |
| 2023 | — | #987 | 223 | |
| 2022 | — | #950 | 239 | |
| 2021 | — | #858 | 272 | |
| 2020 | — | #781 | 300 | |
| 2019 | — | #732 | 329 | |
| 2018 | — | #597 | 459 | |
| 2017 | — | #575 | 474 | |
| 2016 | — | #625 | 428 | |
| 2015 | — | #632 | 423 | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #599 | 454 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #513 | 521 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #503 | 529 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #484 | 544 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #479 | 544 |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #446 | 623 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #431 | 673 |
| 2007 | — | #449 | 621 | |
| 2006 | — | #442 | 616 | |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #344 | 861 |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 | #344 | 826 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 | #378 | 688 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #546 | 406 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | #626 | 303 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #932 | 163 |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 | #796 | 193 |
| 1998 | — | #921 | 154 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,706 | 57 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,911 | 25 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,791 | 12 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Mekhi! It came in at #4,791, and was given to 12 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1995, when fewer than 13 boys a year got the name.
Where Mekhi is popular in 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#497 · 1 in 2,485
- Mississippi#534 · 1 in 2,306
- Illinois#544 · 1 in 2,876
- Virginia#545 · 1 in 2,953
- Alabama#563 · 1 in 2,754
Best ever in a state: #88 in District of Columbia, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Maryland | #497 | 10 | 1 in 2,485 |
| Mississippi | #534 | 5 | 1 in 2,306 |
| Illinois | #544 | 18 | 1 in 2,876 |
| Virginia | #545 | 13 | 1 in 2,953 |
| Alabama | #563 | 8 | 1 in 2,754 |
| South Carolina | #571 | 7 | 1 in 2,929 |
| Florida | #613 | 25 | 1 in 3,814 |
| Missouri | #642 | 8 | 1 in 3,497 |
| Georgia | #643 | 15 | 1 in 3,415 |
| Michigan | #659 | 11 | 1 in 3,773 |
| North Carolina | #686 | 13 | 1 in 3,920 |
| Tennessee | #691 | 9 | 1 in 3,990 |
| Ohio | #792 | 10 | 1 in 5,310 |
| New Jersey | #819 | 7 | 1 in 5,815 |
| New York | #840 | 15 | 1 in 5,812 |
| Pennsylvania | #905 | 8 | 1 in 6,692 |
| Texas | #1,167 | 18 | 1 in 9,928 |
| California | #1,877 | 8 | 1 in 23,641 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Mekhi
- 146 spots since 2024 (#1,023 → #1,169)
- 388 spots since 2020 (#781 → #1,169)
- 537 spots since 2015 (#632 → #1,169)
- Biggest jump: 785 spots in 1998 (#1,706 → #921)
- Biggest drop: 136 spots in 2000 (#796 → #932)
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2005 at #344 (861 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 1998–2023
- Highest: 1 in 2,320 boys born in 2005 were named Mekhi (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,705 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 46.8% of all boys named Mekhi (5,780) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 441 | #796 (1999) | #2,225 |
| 2000s | 5,780 | #344 (2005) | #494 |
| 2010s | 4,705 | #479 (2010) | #574 |
| 2020s | 1,428 | #781 (2020) | #961 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Mekhi in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 7,305 of them was named Mekhi, which outranked 93.4% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).