Fun Facts About the Name Mahina
- 687 babies named Mahina: U.S. records list 687 babies given the name Mahina from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Mahina Mean?
Mahina is a Hawaiian name meaning "moon." It comes from the Hawaiian noun mahina, which also means "month," since months were counted by the phases of the moon. The Hawaiian word descends from Proto-Polynesian *masina, the ancestral word for "moon." The same root appears in Māori māhina, Tahitian māhina, Samoan māsina, and Tongan māhina, each of which likewise means both "moon" and "month." Hawaiian regularly changed the older *s sound to h, which is why the Hawaiian form is mahina rather than masina. The similar Hindi and Urdu word mahīnā, "month," is unrelated; it descends from Sanskrit māsa and shares no origin with the Polynesian word.
Mahina Name History & Origins
Mahina belongs to a word family that spread across the Pacific long before European contact; the ancestral form *masina is reconstructed from matching words for moon and month found throughout Polynesia. In Hawaiian, mahina is ordinary vocabulary as well as a name, and Hawaiian personal names have long been taken from such words - the moon, the sea, plants, and weather. As a given name, Mahina is used in Hawaii and also appears in the mainland United States.
In traditional Hawaiian accounts the moon is personified. Some tellings give the moon deity the name Mahina and describe her as the wife of the sun; others connect the moon with the goddess Hina, who is linked to the moon in several Polynesian traditions. The stories differ from island to island and teller to teller, so no single version can be treated as the source of the name. The word also lies behind place names in Polynesia, including the district and commune of Mahina on the north coast of Tahiti, where the Tahitian form māhina means "moon."
How Popular is the Name Mahina?
Mahina has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2022. Its best rank was #3,103 in 2022.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #3,876 | 38 | 0.0024% |
| 2024 | #3,672 | 42 | 0.0026% |
| 2023 | #3,161 | 52 | 0.0032% |
| 2022 | #3,103 | 53 | 0.0032% |
| 2021 | #4,208 | 34 | 0.0021% |
| 2020 | #4,707 | 28 | 0.0017% |
| 2019 | #3,884 | 38 | 0.0023% |
| 2018 | #5,715 | 22 | 0.0013% |
| 2017 | #5,607 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 2016 | #5,225 | 26 | 0.0015% |
| 2015 | #6,620 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 2014 | #5,914 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 2013 | #5,595 | 24 | 0.0014% |
| 2012 | #7,337 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 2011 | #7,661 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2010 | #6,551 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 2009 | #9,765 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2008 | #8,795 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 2007 | #11,320 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2006 | #8,093 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2005 | #7,755 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2004 | #9,049 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2003 | #7,835 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2002 | #9,231 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2001 | #8,019 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2000 | #8,350 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1999 | #8,579 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1998 | #8,350 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1996 | #12,818 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1995 | #12,721 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1994 | #7,406 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1993 | #10,171 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1991 | #14,482 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1990 | #8,267 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 1985 | #10,093 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1983 | #11,267 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1974 | #9,610 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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