Mêhdï
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mêhdï is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Chiefly used by Iranian immigrants, from Persian مهدی (mahdi), from Arabic مَهْدِيّ (mahdiyy, “rightly guided”). Compare Mahdi.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 440(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 600
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 780
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mêhdï itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 369 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 441 (inferred from the name graph)
≈86,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Mehdi in FR France, MA Morocco, US United States and 2 more and Мехди in AZ Azerbaijan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Persianمهدیmahdi(measured from records)
- Arabicمَهْدِيّmahdiyy“rightly guided”(measured from records)
Chiefly used by Iranian immigrants, from Persian مهدی (mahdi), from Arabic مَهْدِيّ (mahdiyy, “rightly guided”). Compare Mahdi.
Cited for this meaning 4
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mêhdï counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #25 | ≈86,000 est. | ≈1 in 441 | — | Mehdi | 141 |
| DZ Algeria | #46 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 778 | — | Mehdi | 84 |
| FR France | #221 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 47K | Mehdi | 369 |
| TN Tunisia | #60 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 598 | — | Mehdi | 84 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 961 | 1.9K | Мехди | 16 |
| US United States | — | 3,930 | 1 in 85K | 3.9K | Mehdi | 247 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 2K | — | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mêhdï mean, and where does it come from?
- Chiefly used by Iranian immigrants, from Persian مهدی (mahdi), from Arabic مَهْدِيّ (mahdiyy, “rightly guided”). Compare Mahdi. Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Is Mêhdï a male or female name?
- Mêhdï is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Mêhdï?
- Mondonomo estimates about 86 thousand people named Mêhdï in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mehdi. After it come Algeria, France, Tunisia and Azerbaijan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Mêhdï?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,930 people named Mêhdï in 2020, about 1 in 85 thousand residents.
- How common is Mêhdï compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Mêhdï is the 25th most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%AAhd%C3%AFThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mêhdï” — the 25th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.