Mahlet
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MAH-let
- Origin
- Amharic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Mahlet is a girls' name of Amharic origin, meaning “hymn, spiritual song”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Mahlet mean?
Amharic: Ethiopian name from Ge'ez
“hymn, spiritual song”
Ethiopian name from the Ge'ez word for the hymns chanted in Ethiopian Orthodox services.
Is Mahlet a girl's or a boy's name?
Mahlet 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 Mahlet in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 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, 3 girls in the UK were named Mahlet, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2009, with 3 girls.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Mahlet in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 1 | #7,487 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
How popular is Mahlet in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2010, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Mahlet in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
Mahlet in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,001 |
| 2014 | 12 | #8,961 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,214 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,450 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,125 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,897 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,495 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,810 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,011 |
Names like Mahlet
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Maham, Zainab, Rehmat, Miraal, Summer, Mahsa, Maha, Safaa, Ayah, Hiba, Rahma
Names related to Mahlet
More Amharic names
Amare, Aryam, Gelila, Nolawi, Haset, Tafari, Bruk, Leul, Naod, Kidus, Melat, Haile, Menelik, Nuhamin, Meklit, Kirubel
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, “Mahlet: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mahlet, updated 20 October 2026.