Mekhi

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 471 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
471
the US, 2017
Rarity
Uncommon
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#5137
3 babies

How Mekhi has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2023. Lower is more popular.
#494#780#1065201520192023#984

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#632
2016#627
2017#575
2018#598
2019#733
2020#781
2021#863
2022#950
2023#984

Mekhi by the numbers

In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Mekhi. In the US, 471 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 the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 861 babies in 2005, making it a 2000s name.

What we can tell you about Mekhi

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 Mekhi. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Mikhiwho is like god; modern respelling of michael7 in the US (2017)
  • Makhi189 in the US (2017)
  • Mekhai38 in the US (2017)
  • Mekai17 in the US (2017)
  • Makaitowards the sea418 in the US (2017)
  • Mikaiwho is like God; a form of Michael35 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Mekhi

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

Names about as common as Mekhi

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