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Mahir

Mahir: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“skilled; expert”
Origin
Arabic
Say it
mah-HEER · 2 syllables
Used for
Boys

Arabic name from a root meaning skilled, able, or expert. It is also used in Turkish and South Asian Muslim naming traditions.

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How popular is Mahir?

202437.0 per million US babies
1880192019602000
Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Mahir in 2024122

2024 rank#1,484 boys

Peak year2024

Total US babies since 18801,528

Mahir is rising: use over the last five years is 2.6× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Mahir

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Amircommander, prince · Arabic
  • Muhammadpraised · Arabic
  • Zaynbeauty, grace · Arabic
  • Omarflourishing, long-lived · Arabic
  • Cairovictorious · Arabic
  • Ibrahimfather of multitudes · Arabic
  • Khalilfriend, beloved · Arabic
  • Malikking · Arabic

Mahir questions

What does the name Mahir mean?

Mahir means "skilled; expert". It comes from Arabic. Arabic name from a root meaning skilled, able, or expert. It is also used in Turkish and South Asian Muslim naming traditions.

Is Mahir a boy or girl name?

Mahir is mainly a boy's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Mahir?

122 US babies were named Mahir in 2024. Its peak year was 2024.

How do you pronounce Mahir?

Mahir is usually pronounced mah-HEER.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.