Mahdiya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- mah-DEE-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Mahdiya is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “rightly guided”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies) and 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Mahdiya mean?
Arabic: feminine of Mahdi
“rightly guided”
Is Mahdiya a girl's or a boy's name?
Mahdiya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK and 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mahdiya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,276th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 37% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Mahdiya, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,566th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 36 girls.
2025 had fewer girls named Mahdiya than any year since 2003.
Half of all the girls named Mahdiya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Mahdiya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 8 | #3,076 |
| 2023 | 7 | #3,388 |
| 2022 | 7 | #3,347 |
| 2021 | 10 | #2,658 |
| 2020 | 10 | #2,566 |
| 2019 | 7 | #3,340 |
| 2018 | 15 | #2,000 |
| 2017 | 10 | #2,652 |
| 2016 | 14 | #2,111 |
| 2015 | 15 | #1,988 |
| 2014 | 36 | #1,053 |
| 2013 | 27 | #1,324 |
| 2012 | 31 | #1,179 |
| 2011 | 22 | #1,467 |
| 2010 | 21 | #1,527 |
| 2009 | 21 | #1,449 |
| 2008 | 12 | #2,156 |
| 2007 | 8 | #2,790 |
| 2006 | 14 | #1,764 |
| 2005 | 8 | #2,555 |
| 2004 | 7 | #2,669 |
| 2003 | 4 | #3,768 |
| 2002 | 4 | #3,556 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
How popular is Mahdiya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Mahdiya, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 2005.
Half of all the girls named Mahdiya in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Mahdiya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,410 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,227 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,443 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,368 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 11 | #9,971 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,828 |
Names like Mahdiya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Safiya, Abeeha, Nusaybah, Hafsa, Aaliyah, Zainab, Ruqayyah, Sumayyah, Safaa, Rahma, Hiba
Names related to Mahdiya
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Mahdiya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mahdiya, updated 20 October 2026.