Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Mher is a romanization of Մհեր. Մհեր comes from Persian, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2003. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mher through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 31
- 31 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 2015. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 277 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mher’s family of names
In Armenian usage, Mher is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Մհեր.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Mher
- Frunzik MkrtchyanSoviet actor and theatre director (1930-1993)
- Mher GrigoryanArmenian lawyer, vice prime ministerborn 1972
- Mher AbeghyanArmenian painter (1909-1994)
- Mher HovhannisyanBelgian chess playerborn 1978
- Mher MkrtchyanArmenian cyclistborn 1993
- Mher MkrtchyanArmenian film director, screenwriter, actorborn 1972
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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