Mehwish
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Meaning
moon-like, lovely as the moon (Persian mahvash); a Perso-Urdu name of the Pakistani showbiz generation, unknown in Arabic naming
How popular is Mehwish around the world?
In the United States, 27 babies were named Mehwish between 2020 and 2025. In England and Wales, 12 girls named Mehwish were born in 2025, ranked 2,278th among girls that year.
Mehwish is on the official records of the United States, England and Wales, Canada and Spain.
United States
1 in 810,000
In the United States, 27 babies were named Mehwish between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Mehwish has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
England and Wales
1 in 49,000
In England and Wales, 12 girls named Mehwish were born in 2025, ranked 2,278th among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Canada
1 in 73,000
In Canada, 5 girls named Mehwish were born in 2024, ranked 3,457th among girls that year.
The count never rose above 5 in a year, too few to chart.
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
Spain
1 in 280,000
In Spain, 162 residents are named Mehwish, ranked 5,275th among women, with a mean age of 31.4 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Not on the record in Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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