Mehdi

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mehdi is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Morocco it is the 23rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Persian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: the rightly guided one; an eschatological figure.

rarermore common
  • MAMorocco1 in 423◐
  • TNTunisia1 in 974
  • FRFrance1 in 1.5K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈56K ●

across 12 countries

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
352 ●

284K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.5K ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

MehdiLatin · French●386K records
МехдиCyrillic · Russian●4.2K records
ᲛეჰდიGeorgian · Georgian●189 records
메디Hangul · Korean●0 records
ΜεχντιGreek · Greek●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Мехди in RU Russia, AZ Azerbaijan and Მეჰდი in GE Georgia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

the rightly guided one; an eschatological figure

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Mehdi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#29546,570171K rec.1 in 1.5K47KMehdi352
MA Morocco#2336,28833K rec.——Mehdi121
IR Iran—30,13217K rec.——Mehdi107
DZ Algeria#897,2457.9K rec.——Mehdi75
BE Belgium#4164,4495.2K rec.—255Mehdi78
TN Tunisia#774,0893.2K rec.——Mehdi71
US United States—3,91518K rec.1 in 85K3.9KMehdi251
RU Russia—3,7414.7K rec.—#1,090Мехди94
GB United Kingdom—3,6181.6K rec.——Mehdi91
IN India—3,456890 rec.—4.1KMehdi50
TR Türkiye—2,7792.9K rec.——Mehdi38
ES Spain—1,9363.8K rec.1 in 26K1.9KMehdi53

Roughly 47K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 1.5K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • French386K58%
  • Persian48K7%
  • Turkish37K6%
  • English36K5%
  • Arabic35K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French385,54858%
Persian47,7227%
Turkish37,3666%
English35,8065%
Arabic35,4875%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Mehdi is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name71K records spelled Mehdi86 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, Iran

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Méhdi, Mêhdî, Mëhdî, Mêhdï, Mehdį

  • Bangla surname58K records spelled Mehdi98 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, United States

    Languages: Bangla, English, Hindi

    Also written Mehedi, মেহেদী, Mehedy, মেহেদি, Mehedee

  • Turkish given name44K records spelled Mehdi30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Azerbaijan, Syria, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek

    Also written Mehdî, Mêhdî, AL-Mahdi, Méhdî, Mĕĥdĭ

  • a separate given name23K records spelled Mehdi4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Iran, Morocco

    Also written Meḣdi, Mehdī, Mehdî

  • Danish given name3.7K records spelled Mehdi14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Mêhdī, Mëhdï, Méhdi, Męhdï, Męhdi

  • Indonesian given name2.8K records spelled Mehdi12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iran, Morocco, Indonesia, India

    Also written Mêhdî, Mëhdï, Mehdî, Méhdi, Mêhdi

  • Albanian given name2.2K records spelled Mehdi6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, Kosovo, United States, Morocco

    Also written Méhdî, Mëhdï, Mêhdï, Mehdí, Mehd️i

  • Finnish given name1.8K records spelled Mehdi18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Iran, Morocco, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Méhdî, Mëhdï, Mêhdî, Mëhdî, Méhďi

  • Polish given name1.5K records spelled Mehdi7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Iran, United Kingdom

    Also written Mèhdi, Měhdï, Mëhdï, Mehdī, Mĕhďî

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Mehdi is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Origine arabe, signifie « celui qui est conduit ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In Turkish, Doğru yolu bulan, hidayete eren.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

  • In French, Arabic mahdī, ‘rightly guided one’

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • 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.

Over time●

02040608019001950200066 · 1971

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Mehdi in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1873–2025
Yearrecords
18731
19021
19041
19081
19101
19143
19171
19181
19201
19233
19242
19252
19261
19273
19284
19293
19307
19313
19321
19333
19344
19354
193611
193712
193814
193912
194014
194112
194218
194319
194423
194523
194619
194723
194812
194921
195028
195117
195232
195324
195440
195535
195642
195722
195835
195936
196044
196140
196240
196338
196454
196545
196647
196762
196853
196945
197052
197166
197240
197353
197455
197553
197644
197742
197855
197937
198034
198139
198232
198328
198433
198521
198624
198715
198815
198913
19908
19917
19925
19937
19947
19957
19964
19974
19987
19997
20007
20015
20025
20033
20044
20053
20067
20072
20084
20094
20101
20116
20125
20134
20143
20157
20167
20176
20183
20193
20205
20218
20223
20238
20245
20253

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 112 years between 1873–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Mehdi Frashëri, b. 1872Mehdi Bazargan, b. 1907Mehdi Ben Barka, b. 1920Mehdi Nebbou, b. 1974Mehdi Mahdavikia, b. 1977Mehdi Nafti, b. 1978Diomansy Kamara, b. 1980Mehdi Dehbi, b. 1985Mehdi Carcela-Gonzalez, b. 1989Mehdi Abeid, b. 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).

Evidence●

Attested in 82 sources across 42 countries.

Official registers attesting Mehdi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202447K#273
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.9K#4,658
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—2K#373
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.9K#1,771
AZ AzerbaijanAzerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics—1.9K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.7K#1,185
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.5K#930
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.3K#1,418
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.2K#22,759
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.1K—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.1K#4,191
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.1K#4,188

Reference works 6

  • 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)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 784 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mehdi?
We estimate roughly 56 thousand people bear Mehdi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Mehdi have the most bearers?
We estimate about 47 thousand people bear Mehdi in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled mehdi.
How common is Mehdi compared with other names?
In France, Mehdi is the 295th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
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.
What does the name Mehdi mean?
Recorded meaning: the rightly guided one; an eschatological figure
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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 295th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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