Mehdi
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Arabic: the rightly guided one; an eschatological figure
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/medi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mehdi is a 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.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 462(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 923
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 1K
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.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 369 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 462 (inferred from the name graph)
≈77,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 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)
the rightly guided one; an eschatological figure
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mehdi is read(measured from records)
Mehdi is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French52%
Origine arabe, signifie « celui qui est conduit ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Arabic mahdī, ‘rightly guided one’
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- English8.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mehdi in English.
- Persian8.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mehdi in Persian.
- Arabic8.0%
the rightly guided one; an eschatological figure
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- Turkish7.7%
Doğru yolu bulan, hidayete eren.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mehdi 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 | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 462 | — | Mehdi | 141 |
| FR France | #221 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 47K | Mehdi | 369 |
| DZ Algeria | #46 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Mehdi | 84 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Mehdi | 115 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Mehdi | 40 |
| TN Tunisia | #60 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 923 | — | Mehdi | 84 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #986 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 1.9K | Мехди | 16 |
| US United States | — | 3,930 | 1 in 85K | 3.9K | Mehdi | 247 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 826 | 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mehdi is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Maltese, alternative form of medhi
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)
- Mehdi Frashërib. 1872ALAlbanian politician (1872-1963)
- Mehdi Bazarganb. 1907IRIranian politician and Islamic thinker (1907–1995)
- Mehdi Ben Barkab. 1920MAMoroccan politician (UNFP) (1920-1965)
- Mehdi Nebboub. 1974FRFrench actor (1974)
- Mehdi Mahdavikiab. 1977IRIranian footballer
- Mehdi Naftib. 1978FRTunisian-French football manager (born 1978)
- Diomansy Kamarab. 1980FRnot in their usual nameSenegalese-French footballer (born 1980)
- Mehdi Dehbib. 1985TNBelgian actor
- Mehdi Carcela-Gonzalezb. 1989BEMoroccan footballer
- Mehdi Abeidb. 1992FRAlgerian-French footballer (born 1992)
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 85 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 47K | #273 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.9K | #4,658 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 2K | #373 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 1.9K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 27 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 15 | #4,658 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2025 | 3 | — |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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
- What does the name Mehdi mean, and where does it come from?
- the rightly guided one; an eschatological figure Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Mehdi?
- A machine transcription gives /medi/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Mehdi a male or female name?
- Mehdi 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 Mehdi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 77 thousand people named Mehdi in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mehdi.
- How common is the name Mehdi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,930 people named Mehdi in 2020, about 1 in 85 thousand residents.
- How common is Mehdi compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Mehdi is the 25th most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mehdi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mehdiThe 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, “Mehdi” — the 25th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.