Mahari

A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 46 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
46
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Mahari by the numbers

Mahari was given to 46 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.

What we can tell you about Mahari

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Mahari. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Makhari11 in the US (2017)
  • Macari6 in the US (2017)
  • Maherkindly or generous one15 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Makaniwind21 in the US (2017)
  • Mauriof moorish or mauritian tradition; dark-skinned14 in the US (2017)
  • Meraribitter; of the tribe of Merari in the Torah11 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Mahari

Names that are said the same way as Mahari, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Mayarigoddess of the moon in Filipino mythology4 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Mariiof mary; modern respelling variant5 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Mahari

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