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Mhairi

Mhairi reached its high-water mark in 1997 at number 13,724, and has been recorded 5 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1997. About 5 Mhairis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 3 5 8 10 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Mhairi

By the numbers

Total US births
5
Estimated living today
5
Median age today
28
Peak year
1997
Best rank
13,724th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1997

Notable Mhairis

People named Mhairi with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Names of 1997

The most popular girls’ names the year Mhairi peaked:

All the names of 1997

Mhairi elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Scotland girls Mhairi 2,556 68th
England and Wales girls Mhairi 195 1,018th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Mhairi: rank by region

In 2015, Mhairi was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

Region Spelling Place Children
Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste Mhairi 10 1

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.