Minahil
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- mi-NAA-hil
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,107 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Minahil is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “springs of water”. In 2025 it ranked 1,107th for girls in the UK (32 babies) and 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Minahil mean?
Arabic: South Asian spelling of Manahil
“springs of water”
Spelling of Manahil, the Arabic plural of manhal, a spring or watering place.
Is Minahil a girl's or a boy's name?
Minahil is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 32 girls in the UK and 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Minahil in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,107th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 32 about 1 in 8,700 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling fast down 67% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 32 girls in the UK were named Minahil, making it the 1,107th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 600th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 111 girls.
Half of all the girls named Minahil in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,051st in England and Wales.
Minahil in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #1,107 |
| 2024 | 28 | #1,248 |
| 2023 | 28 | #1,247 |
| 2022 | 54 | #740 |
| 2021 | 73 | #590 |
| 2020 | 70 | #600 |
| 2019 | 93 | #493 |
| 2018 | 107 | #458 |
| 2017 | 111 | #442 |
| 2016 | 101 | #477 |
| 2015 | 61 | #714 |
| 2014 | 59 | #722 |
| 2013 | 51 | #807 |
| 2012 | 33 | #1,128 |
| 2011 | 27 | #1,272 |
| 2010 | 19 | #1,635 |
| 2009 | 21 | #1,449 |
| 2008 | 23 | #1,346 |
| 2007 | 11 | #2,198 |
| 2006 | 15 | #1,681 |
| 2005 | 7 | #2,806 |
| 2004 | 5 | #3,356 |
| 2003 | 7 | #2,574 |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
| 2001 | 1 | #5,353 |
| 2000 | 5 | #2,907 |
| 1999 | 1 | #5,182 |
| 1998 | 4 | #3,310 |
How popular is Minahil in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling fast down 75% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Minahil, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,846th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 35 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.
Half of all the girls named Minahil in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Minahil in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 20 | #5,951 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,846 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,071 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,356 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,383 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,283 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,480 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,252 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,800 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,779 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,675 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,751 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,132 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
Names like Minahil
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Nusaybah, Aaliyah, Zainab, Abeeha, Ruqayyah, Sumayyah, Hafsa, Ayah, Safiya, Hiba, Amira
Names related to Minahil
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), 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, “Minahil: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/minahil, updated 20 October 2026.