Mahdia
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MAH-dee-ah
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
Mahdia is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “rightly guided”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies).
What does Mahdia mean?
Arabic: feminine of Mahdi
“rightly guided”
Is Mahdia a girl's or a boy's name?
Mahdia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mahdia in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,101st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 57% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Mahdia, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th.
2025 had the most girls named Mahdia of any year since it first appeared, in 1999.
Half of all the girls named Mahdia in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Mahdia in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 5 | #4,390 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 5 | #4,141 |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 4 | #4,357 |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 3 | #4,041 |
Names like Mahdia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Zainab, Safiya, Hafsa, Abeeha, Amira, Aaliyah, Nusaybah, Hiba, Khadija, Safaa, Ruqayyah
Names related to Mahdia
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Mahdia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mahdia, updated 20 October 2026.