Mahina
Feminine · “moon”
Mahina is the Hawaiian word for the moon, and it is also the word for a month — Hawaiian, like most languages, counted time by the same thing it looked at.
How old is the name Mahina?
Mahina first appears in US birth records in 1974 — 51 years ago. The typical Mahina is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Mahina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mahina most popular?
Mahina peaked in 2022, reaching #3073 nationally. Today it ranks #3832, 759 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Mahina
The Hawaiian lunar calendar named every night of the month separately — Hilo the first thin crescent, Mahealani the full moon, Muku the dark — and each name carried practical instruction about what to plant and when to fish. Mahina is the moon itself. The word is used as a personal name in Hawaii and appears in American records mainly from there and from Polynesian families.
Meaning
moon, month
From Hawaiian mahina, the moon; the same word names a month, and the traditional Hawaiian calendar named all thirty nights of the lunar cycle individually, each with its own name and its own fishing and planting guidance.
Pronouncing Mahina
mah-HEE-nah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Every vowel is sounded in Hawaiian.
Nicknames for Mahina
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1974
- Most girls named
- 202253 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3073reached in 2022
- Change vs 2024
- −9.5%38 in 2025, from 42
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Mahina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mahina in Hawaiian — same name
- Marama in Maori — related form
- Mahina in Tahitian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Hawaii, California.
Mahinas among us
people named Mahina are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 42,297 born in 2025 was named Mahina
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Berlyn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Mahina's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Berlyn climbed just as high around 2004, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Berlyn's path sketches the road Mahina is walking now.
Mahina sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Mahina is headed
Mahina looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 18% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Mahina beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Mahina in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning in a living language with a genuinely rich calendrical tradition behind it.
- Every vowel is sounded, so it reads correctly at first sight in most languages.
- Six letters and three syllables, manageable to write.
- It is a Hawaiian word, and Hawaiian families have views about its use by outsiders.
- English readers do not know where the stress falls.
- It is close to Marina and Malia in an American ear.
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Frequently asked
- How many Mahinas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Mahina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Mahina in 2025?
- Mahina ranks #3832 among US girl names in 2025, with 38 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Mahina?
- About 1 in every 42,297 US girls born in 2025 was named Mahina — 38 in all.
- Will my child share the name Mahina with classmates?
- Mahina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Mahina
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