Maheera
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ma-HEER-a
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Maheera is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “skilful, expert”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Maheera mean?
Arabic: spelling of Mahira
“skilful, expert”
Spelling of Mahira, the feminine of Arabic mahir 'skilled, expert'.
Is Maheera a girl's or a boy's name?
Maheera is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maheera in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling fast down 62% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Maheera, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,630th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 14 girls.
Half of all the girls named Maheera in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Maheera in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,630 |
| 2019 | 6 | #3,738 |
| 2018 | 9 | #2,825 |
| 2017 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 2016 | 14 | #2,111 |
| 2015 | 8 | #3,114 |
| 2014 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 4 | #3,768 |
Names like Maheera
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Abeeha, Khadija, Amira, Hafsa, Hiba, Rahma, Aaliyah, Nusaybah, Rumaysa, Zainab, Mahira
Names related to Maheera
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, “Maheera: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maheera, updated 20 October 2026.