Mahogany
Feminine
Mahogany's name has no recovered source — it entered English in the seventeenth century and nobody knows from where.
How old is the name Mahogany?
Mahogany first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Mahogany alive today was born around 2002, making them about 23 years old. About 4,100 people named Mahogany are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mahogany most popular?
Mahogany peaked in 2000, reaching #1210 nationally. Today it ranks #2645, 1,435 places below that high. See the whole 2000 chart.
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Where it comes from
From mahogany to Mahogany
Our story of Mahogany
Our story of Mahogany is a story of a word with no traceable parent. It appears in English in the 1670s for a Caribbean hardwood that became the furniture timber of the eighteenth century — Chippendale worked in it — and where the word came from has never been settled. A Yoruba source and an unnamed Caribbean language are both proposed. Mahogany entered American given-name use in the 1970s, and both facts are honest.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The word's origin is genuinely unrecovered. It appears in English from the 1670s for the Caribbean timber; proposals include a Yoruba word, an unidentified Caribbean language and a Spanish route. None is established. Honest sources record the origin as unknown.
How the name formed
- mahogany
- Mahogany
Related forms: Caoba · Acajou
Pronouncing Mahogany
muh-HOG-uh-nee
Four syllables, stress on the second. Said identically in every English accent.
Nicknames for Mahogany
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
- 1975
- Most girls named
- 1999144 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1210reached in 2000
- Change vs 2024
- −16.7%65 in 2025, from 78
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.
Mahogany in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Caoba in Spanish — related form
- Acajou in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania.
Mahoganys among us
people named Mahogany are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 24,727 born in 2025 was named Mahogany
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Mahogany
- #2645
- Mahogany on the 2025 chart
- #887
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Mahogany went to 65 girls in 2025, but Mahogani is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 73, which makes it the 887th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,758 places above the chart.
- Mahogany65
- Mahogani8
About 1 girl in 22,017 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 24,727 for Mahogany itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Raylene test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Mahogany's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Raylene climbed just as high around 1949, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Raylene's path sketches the road Mahogany is walking now.
Mahogany 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 Mahogany is headed
Mahogany should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Mahogany beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Mahogany in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That the word's origin is genuinely unrecovered is a first-rate fact.
- That Chippendale worked in the timber is a good association.
- Four syllables of open vowels, which carries unusually well.
- The meaning is genuinely unrecovered.
- It is an ordinary English noun for a timber.
- Four syllables make it long for everyday use.
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Frequently asked
- How many Mahoganys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,100 people named Mahogany are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Mahogany?
- Mahogany is the most-used spelling in US records — 65 of the 73 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Mahogani.
- How popular is the name Mahogany in 2025?
- Mahogany ranks #2645 among US girl names in 2025, with 65 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Mahogany?
- About 1 in every 24,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Mahogany — 65 in all.
- Will my child share the name Mahogany with classmates?
- Mahogany will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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