Mahek
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MEH-hek
- Origin
- Hindi
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,776 for girls
Mahek is a girls' name of Hindi origin, meaning “fragrance, sweet scent”. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies).
What does Mahek mean?
Hindi: Hindi and Urdu mahak
“fragrance, sweet scent”
Is Mahek a girl's or a boy's name?
Mahek is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mahek in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,776among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 46,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 9% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Mahek, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 36 girls.
2025 had more girls named Mahek than any year since 2016.
Half of all the girls named Mahek in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 14 girls in the UK were given Mahek or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,781, up from #3,776 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.
Mahek in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,776 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 7 | #3,389 |
| 2015 | 11 | #2,458 |
| 2014 | 19 | #1,656 |
| 2013 | 14 | #2,061 |
| 2012 | 36 | #1,058 |
| 2011 | 22 | #1,467 |
| 2010 | 31 | #1,136 |
| 2009 | 28 | #1,179 |
| 2008 | 23 | #1,346 |
| 2007 | 33 | #985 |
| 2006 | 36 | #896 |
| 2005 | 26 | #1,048 |
| 2004 | 29 | #967 |
| 2003 | 18 | #1,317 |
| 2002 | 6 | #2,691 |
| 2001 | 6 | #2,587 |
| 2000 | 6 | #2,554 |
How popular is Mahek in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2005, with 35 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.
Half of all the girls named Mahek in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2010, the years shaded on the chart below.
Mahek in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 12 | #8,961 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,575 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,707 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,779 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,227 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,314 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,747 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,088 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,462 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,025 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,703 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,581 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,082 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,829 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,307 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,797 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,576 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,435 |
Names like Mahek
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Zainab Aaliyah Ayah Summer Hiba Hafsa Maya Maha Sumayyah Rahma Imaan
Other spellings of Mahek
Names related to Mahek
More Hindi names
Prisha Saanvi Meera Riya Jiya Diya Reyansh Sai Shanaya Neev Aarush Rivaan Samaira Rishaan Sanaya Tulsi
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, “Mahek: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mahek, updated 20 October 2026.