Fun Facts About the Name Mehr
- 310 babies named Mehr: U.S. records list 310 babies given the name Mehr from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Mehr Mean?
Mehr is a Persian given name meaning "love, affection" and "sun." It comes from the Persian word مهر (mehr), which carries both senses and continues Middle Persian mihr. That word is also the Middle Persian form of Mithra, the ancient Iranian deity of covenant and light; the older Iranian term is represented by Avestan miθra-, usually translated "contract" or "covenant." The name is thus connected etymologically with a word for covenant, but its customary Persian meanings are love and the sun, and those are the senses the given name usually conveys.
Mehr Name History & Origins
Mehr is the New Persian descendant of Middle Persian mihr. In Zoroastrian tradition, Mithra was a yazata, a divine being who guarded oaths and contracts and was associated with light; later tradition linked him with the sun. The seventh month of the Iranian calendar is named Mehr, and the autumn festival Mehregan falls in that month. The word also became a personal name in Persian. It is used in Iran, where it is familiar as a feminine name, and it also appears in Urdu and other South Asian Muslim naming traditions through Persian literary influence.
How Popular is the Name Mehr?
Mehr 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 2019. Its best rank was #5,401 in 2019.
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 | #6,472 | 18 | 0.0011% |
| 2024 | #6,818 | 17 | 0.0011% |
| 2023 | #6,830 | 17 | 0.0011% |
| 2022 | #9,435 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2021 | #5,874 | 21 | 0.0013% |
| 2020 | #5,432 | 23 | 0.0014% |
| 2019 | #5,401 | 24 | 0.0014% |
| 2018 | #7,626 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2017 | #9,733 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2016 | #9,237 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2015 | #9,315 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2014 | #8,795 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2013 | #11,654 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2012 | #9,520 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2011 | #11,844 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2010 | #9,609 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2009 | #14,701 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2008 | #10,553 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2007 | #14,936 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2006 | #14,595 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2005 | #13,985 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2004 | #8,565 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2003 | #17,454 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2002 | #14,791 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2001 | #14,718 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2000 | #16,677 | 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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How the Name Mehr Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You have psychic power. You can carry on for others with joy. You have a receptive nature and may bear burdens for others. You are pragmatic, thorough, strong-willed, practical and stubborn at times. You are hard working, often martyr to duty. You like home and security above all. You have an eventful, exciting life. You are versatile and have the ability to learn easily.
Position and social status is very important for you and you are always looking for way to improve your position in society. You have power and ability to chose your own destiny and achieve anything you want in life. You can expand in any direction according to your will and the set of values. You have passion for justice and belong to the position of authority. You have an inherent courage and endurance to accomplish "The Impossible Dream". With the power comes responsibility. You hold keys to the material world, but with this gift comes high spiritual responsibility to be fair and true to others. You are philosophical and mature, determined and intense with a desire to endure, often religious.
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