Mahir
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hünerli, becerikli, elinden iş gelen kimse
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mahˈɪr/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mahir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 751(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 1.6K
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 176 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 751 (inferred from the name graph)
≈32,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Hünerli, becerikli, elinden iş gelen kimse.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mahir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #466 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Mahir | 100 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #175 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 751 | 289 | Mahir | 52 |
| SY Syria | #431 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Mahir | 7 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #221 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 952 | 61 | Mahir | 22 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Mahir | 100 |
| US United States | — | 1,369 | 1 in 243K | 1.4K | Mahir | 176 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 469 | Mahir | 5 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); the ba-fzs-newborn-names register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mahir is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Hebrew: industrious; the praised one.
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
‘Skilful’, ‘proficient’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
expert; proficient
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Esperto
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In Azerbaijani, skilled, skillful, proficient, adept.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mahir Domib. 1915ALAlbanian linguist
- Mahir Çayanb. 1945TRTurkish Marxist–Leninist revolutionary (1945-1972)
- Mahir Ünalb. 1966TRTurkish statesperson (born 1966)
- Maher al-Assadb. 1967SYnot in their usual nameSyrian general and commander of the Republican Guard
- Mahir İpekb. 1972TRTurkish actor (born 1972)
- Maher al-Sharaab. 1973SYnot in their usual nameSyrian politician and physician (born 1973)
- Mahir Oralb. 1980DEboxer
- Mahir Şükürovb. 1982AZAzerbaijani footballer
- Mahir Sağlıkb. 1983TRTurkish association football player (born 1983)
- Mahir Morshedtechnologist, researcher, engineer, and Wikimedian
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 73 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #9,928 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 469 | #1,223 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 289 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 130 | — |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | FZS — 100 najčešćih imena (Top-100 Newborn Names, Federation of BiH) | 2025 | 61 | #41 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16 | #9,928 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2025 | 4 | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Mahir?
- A machine transcription gives /mahˈɪr/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Mahir mean?
- Recorded meaning: Hünerli, becerikli, elinden iş gelen kimse.
- Is Mahir a male or female name?
- Mahir 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.
- In which country does Mahir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named Mahir in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahir.
- How common is the name Mahir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,369 people named Mahir in 2020, about 1 in 243 thousand residents.
- How common is Mahir compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Mahir is the 466th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mahirThe 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, “Mahir” — the 466th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.