Mehtab

A unisex name of Persian origin, meaning moon; moonlight.

Babies a year
54
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#668
54 babies · up from #773

Mehtab by the numbers

In 2025, 54 babies in England and Wales were named Mehtab. In the US, 17 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in England and Wales than in the US.

Its American peak was 22 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.

Spelled almost the same

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

  • Mehtaabmoonlight6 in England and Wales (2025)

Other names that mean the moon

Like Mehtab, each of these has the moon in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.

  • Lunamoon5,327 in the US (2017)
  • Aylahalo of moonlight; oak tree980 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Selenamoon goddess; a form of Selene1,296 in the US (2017)
  • Kamarithe moon; Arabic origin674 in the US (2017)
  • Selenemoon goddess289 in the US (2017)
  • Cindymoon; a diminutive of Cynthia230 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Mehtab

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