Mahiya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MAH-hee-ya
- Origin
- Punjabi
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Mahiya is a girls' name of Punjabi origin, meaning “beloved”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Mahiya mean?
Punjabi: from Punjabi mahiya, a word familiar from folk songs
“beloved”
Is Mahiya a girl's or a boy's name?
Mahiya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mahiya in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2008, with 10 girls.
Half of all the girls named Mahiya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2007 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
Mahiya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 4 | #5,058 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 10 | #2,454 |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 6 | #3,280 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 3 | #4,026 |
How popular is Mahiya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 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, 5 girls in the US were named Mahiya, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 12 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.
Half of all the girls named Mahiya in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Mahiya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,001 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,594 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,828 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
Nicknames for Mahiya
- Mahi 40 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Mahiya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Safiya, Aaliyah, Zainab, Hafsa, Abeeha, Nusaybah, Sumayyah, Hiba, Ruqayyah, Safaa, Rahma
Names related to Mahiya
More Punjabi names
Asees, Gurbaaz, Nirvair, Gurfateh, Jind, Baani, Akaal, Gurnawab, Jujhar, Ajooni, Mannat, Ekam, Gurniwaz, Gurnaaz, Gursanjh, Avleen
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, “Mahiya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mahiya, updated 20 October 2026.