Mahya
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mahya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iran than in any other country. Recorded meaning: highly honoured.
- UYUruguay1 in 147K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 152K
- IRIran≈1 in 196K
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.
- Iran (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 147K (inferred from the name graph)
≈430 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
highly honoured.
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mahya 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.
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Mahya 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 Turkish, Ramazan gecelerinde, camilerde iki minare arasına gerilen ipler üzerine kandil veya elektrik ampulleriyle yazılan yazı veya yapılan resim.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)
- Mahya Dehghanib. 1992IRIranian actress and model
- Mahya AmeryanNLcomputer scientist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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 Mahya mean, and where does it come from?
- highly honoured. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- Is Mahya a male or female name?
- Mahya is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Mahya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 434 people named Mahya in Iran, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahya.
- Where is Mahya most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mahya is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 147 thousand people — even though Iran holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mahya?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 67 people named Mahya, about 1 in 152 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mahyaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Mahya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.