Mahdi Family History
- Mahdi Name Meaning
- Muslim: from a personal name based on Arabic mahdi ‘guided’. This was the name of the twelfth Shiite imam, who disappeared in mysterious circumstances in 939, giving rise to a belief that he will return and unite Muslims under his leadership, triumphing over injustice.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,787 Historical Documents with Mahdi on Ancestry
- 1,369 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 42 Census and Voter Lists
- 52 Military Records
- 172 Immigration Records
- 152 Member Trees
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Number of Mahdi families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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