Fun Facts About the Name Mahreen
- 215 babies named Mahreen: U.S. records list 215 babies given the name Mahreen from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Mahreen Mean?
Mahreen is a feminine given name with no single settled meaning in English reference works. It is usually treated as a spelling of Mehreen, which comes from Persian. The likely base is mehr (مهر), a word meaning "sun," "love," or "affection"; with the ending -īn, the Persian form Mehrīn is often explained as "sun-like" or "radiant." The same mehr appears in the Persian month Mehr and in the Zoroastrian figure Mithra. A competing explanation takes the first element as Persian māh (ماه), "moon," which would give a sense like "moon-like" or "moon-faced." That reading is suggested by the English spelling Mah- and by names such as Mahin and Mahrukh, but the ending -reen is not a standard Persian suffix in the same way as -īn. Because Mahreen is a transliteration and because both derivations circulate, the precise original meaning is uncertain.
Mahreen Name History & Origins
The name is built from Persian and Urdu naming elements. In Persian, mehr means "sun" and also "love" or "covenant"; it is the name of the seventh month of the Persian calendar and is associated with Mithra in Zoroastrian tradition. Feminine names ending in -īn are common in Persian and in Urdu-speaking South Asia, and Mehrīn/Mehreen follows that pattern. Mahreen is one of several English spellings; Mehreen, Mehrin, and Mahrin also appear. The name is used by Muslim families in Pakistan and India and has traveled with South Asian communities to Britain, Canada, and the United States. Its English-language use is therefore mainly a matter of modern transliteration and migration rather than a long separate history in English. The alternate spelling does not by itself prove a different origin from Mehreen; the two are generally treated as the same name written in different ways.
How Popular is the Name Mahreen?
Mahreen 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 #6,879 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 | #9,240 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2024 | #9,294 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2023 | #11,782 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2022 | #6,879 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 2021 | #11,768 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2020 | #7,805 | 14 | 0.0009% |
| 2019 | #7,994 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2018 | #10,280 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2017 | #10,433 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2016 | #13,798 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2015 | #9,288 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2014 | #12,641 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2013 | #11,595 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2012 | #8,473 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2011 | #10,149 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2010 | #16,207 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2009 | #9,766 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2008 | #12,216 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2006 | #16,338 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2005 | #12,545 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1998 | #15,587 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1996 | #14,890 | 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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