Mahra
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MAH-ra
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Mahra is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “filly, young mare”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies) and 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Mahra mean?
Arabic: Arabic mahra
“filly, young mare”
Is Mahra a girl's or a boy's name?
Mahra is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK and 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mahra in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,276among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 144% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Mahra, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,630th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 10 girls.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Mahra in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 7 | #3,381 |
| 2023 | 10 | #2,640 |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,630 |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 1 | #7,682 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
How popular is Mahra in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,913among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Mahra, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2016, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 2012.
Half of all the girls named Mahra in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Mahra in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,599 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
Names like Mahra
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Hiba Hafsa Rahma Ayah Abeeha Huda Zaha Nusaybah Zainab Khadija Halima
Names related to Mahra
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra
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, “Mahra: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mahra, updated 20 October 2026.