Mehdi (Arabic: المَهْدِي, romanized: al-mehdi) is a common Arabic masculine given name, meaning "rightly guided".^[1] People with the name Mehdi generally originate from Iran, with other notable countries of origin being: India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Azerbaijan, France, Morocco, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and the United States of America.^[2]

This name is a variation of the name Mahdi which has an Arabic origin. Other, less common, variations are Medi, Mehti, Meyti.

People with the given name

Arts and entertainment

DJ Mehdi (1977–2011), French hip hop and house producer
Mehdi Bagheri (born 1980), Iranian kamancheh player and composer
Mehdi Bahmad, Moroccan-born Canadian singer, songwriter, producer, director, and visual artist
Mehdi Bajestani (born 1974), Iranian actor
Mehdi Bozorgmehr, Iranian musician and composer
Mehdi Charef, French-Algerian film director and screenwriter
Mehdi Dehbi (born 1985), Belgian actor and theatre director
Mehdi Favéris-Essadi, French-Tunisian hip hop and electro producer, better known as DJ Mehdi
Mehdi Forough (1911–2008), Iranian scholar, author, dramatist, writer on dramatic arts and culture, translator
Mehdi Ghadyanloo (born 1981), Iranian artist, painter, and muralist
Mehdi Halıcı (1927-2008), a Turkish writer of Kurdish origin who wrote several novels and books about Kurdish and Turkish culture and history. Also widely known as Cemşid Bender, a pseudonym he used for books and articles on Kurdish culture and history
Mehdi Hassan, Pakistani ghazal singer
Mehdi Hosseini (born 1979), Persian composer of contemporary classical music
Mehdi Hosseini (born 1967), Iranian-American Telecommunications Engineer
Mehdi Khalaji (born 1973), Iranian-American writer, scholar of Islamic studies, political analyst
Mehdi Pakdel (born 1980), Iranian actor
Mehdi Mousavi (born 1976), Iranian poet
Mehdi Norowzian, Iranian-British film director
Mehdi Rajabian, Iranian musician
Mehdi Sahabi (1944–2009), Iranian translator, painter and writer
Mehdi Saki (born 1974), Iranian actor, composer and singer

Politics

Mehdi Abrishamchi, member of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) described as "the right hand man of Massoud Rajavi", the group's leader
Mehdi Azar (1901–1994), Iranian physician and politician
Mehdi Bazargan, Prime Minister of Iran in 1979
Mehdi Ben Barka (1920 – disappeared 29 October 1965), Moroccan politician, head of the left-wing National Union of Popular Forces (UNPF) and secretary of the Tricontinental Conference
Mehdi Frashëri (1872–1963), Albanian intellectual and politician. Served as Prime Minister of Albania in the 1930s
Mehdi Hashemi, Iranian cleric and senior official
Mehdi Huseynzade (1918–1944), Azerbaijani guerrilla and scout during World War II
Mehdi Jomaa (born 1962), Tunisian engineer and acting Prime Minister of Tunisia
Mehdi Karroubi (born 1937), Iranian Shia cleric and reformist politician, former speaker of Parliament in Iran
Mehdi Noorbakhsh, Iranian academic and political activist affiliated with the Freedom Movement of Iran
Mehdi Tabatabaei (1936—2018), Iranian Shia cleric and Seyyed, conservative politician who served as member of the Parliament of Iran
Mehdi Zana (born 1940), Kurdish politician from Turkey

Sports

Mehdi Abdesmad (born 1991), Canadian-born American football player in the defensive end
Mehdi Abdi (born 1998), Iranian footballer
Mehdi Abeid (born 1992), Algerian footballer
Mehdi Abtahi (born 1963), Iranian footballer
Mehdi Baala (born 1978), French, middle-distance runner
Mehdi Baghdad (born 1985), French mixed martial artist
Mehdi Bazargard (born 1979), Iranian volleyball player
Mehdi Beneddine (born 1996), French footballer
Mehdi Bennani (born 1983), Moroccan racing driver
Mehdi Berrahma (born 1992), Moroccan footballer
Mehdi Bouadla (born 1982), French-Algerian boxer
Mehdi Boudjemaa (born 1998), French footballer
Mehdi Boukassi (born 1996), Algerian footballer
Mehdi Bourabia (born 1991), Moroccan footballer
Mehdi Carcela, or Mehdi François Carcela-González (born 1989), Belgian-born Moroccan footballer
Mehdi Cerbah (born 1953), Algerian footballer
Mehdi Fonounizadeh (born 1962), Iranian footballer
Mehdi Ghayedi (born 1998), Iranian footballer
Mehdi Hafsi, also known as Mehdi Labeyrie (born 1978), French-born Tunisian basketball player
Mehdi Hasan (cricketer, born 1990), Indian cricketer
Mehdi Hasheminasab (born 1973), Iranian footballer
Mehdi Jannatov (born 1992), Azerbaijani footballer
Mehdi Kadi (born 1994), French footballer
Mehdi Khalil, Lebanese footballer
Mehdi Khodabakhshi (born 1991), Iranian-born Serb Taekwondo practitioner.
Mehdi Lacen, Algerian football player
Mehdi Lehaire (born 2000), Belgian footballer
Mehdi Léris (born 1998), French footballer
Mehdi Leroy, French football player
Mehdi Mahdavikia, Iranian footballer
Mehdi Mehdipour (born 1994), Iranian footballer
Mehdi Méniri (born 1977), Algerian footballer
Mehdi Meriah (born 1979), Tunisian footballer
Mehdi Momeni, Iranian footballer
Mehdi El Moutacim (born 2000), Finnish footballer
Mehdi Nafti, Tunisian footballer
Mehdi Ouertani (born 1990), Tunisian footballer
Mehdi Pashazadeh (born 1973), Iranian footballer and football coach
Mehdi Rahmati, Iranian footballer
Mehdi Salehpour (born 1975), Iranian footballer
Mehdi Sharifi (born 1992), Iranian footballer
Mehdi Tahrat (born 1990), Algerian footballer
Mehdi Taj, Iranian sports executive and administrator
Mehdi Taremi (born 1992), Iranian footballer
Mehdi Terki (born 1991), Algerian footballer
Mehdi Tikdari (born 1996), Iranian footballer
Mehdi Torabi (born 1994), Iranian footballer
Mehdi Torkaman (born 1989), Iranian footballer
Mehdi Yaghoubi (born 1930), Iranian bantamweight freestyle wrestler
Mehdi Zamani, Iranian sprint athlete
Mehdi Zeffane (born 1992), Algerian footballer

Others

Mehdi Aminrazavi, Iranian scholar of philosophy and mysticism
Mehdi Ashraphijuo, American mathematician, financial risk manager and writer
Mehdi Bahadori (born 1933), Iranian professor of mechanical engineering
Mehdi Bayat (born 1979), French-Iranian businessman, president of the Royal Belgian Football Association
Mehdi Dibaj (1935–1994), Iranian Christian convert from Shia Islam, pastor and Christian martyr
Mehdi Golshani, Iranian theoretical physicist
Mehdi Ghezali, Swedish bank robber
Mehdi Hasan (born 1979), British-American journalist, broadcaster and author
Mehdi Hasan (Pakistani journalist) (born 1937), Pakistani journalist
Mehdi Kazemi, Iranian asylum seeker in the UK
Mehdi Kazemi , Iranian pilot and Space Scientist, Ph.D. in Iceland
Mehdi Khalaji, Iranian journalist
Mehdi Khazali (born 1965), publisher, physician, blogger
Mehdi Sadaghdar, also known as ElectroBOOM, Iranian-Canadian electrical engineer, YouTuber and comedian
Mehdi Semsar (1929–2003), Iranian journalist and translator
Mehdi Shahbazi, American businessman

People with the middle name

Mohamed Mehdi Hasan (born 1971), Bangladeshi Olympic sprinter
Mohammad Mehdi Mehdikhani (born 1997), Iranian footballer
Parvaiz Mehdi Qureshi (born 1943), Pakistani retired four-star air officer and a fighter pilot who served as the eighth Chief of Air Staff (CAS) of the Pakistan Air Force
Syed Mehdi Shah, first Chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan.

People with the surname

Aga Syed Mehdi (1959–2000), Kashmiri Shia leader and social activist
Amir Mehdi (or Amir Mahdi, and also known as Hunza Mehdi), Pakistani mountaineer
Anisa Mehdi, Iraqi-Canadian film director and journalist
Asif Mehdi (born 1966), Pakistani ghazal and playback singer
Eqbal Mehdi (1946–2008), Pakistani painter
Georges Mehdi (1934–2018), Brazilian judoka of French descent
M. T. Mehdi (1928-1998), Iraqi-American politician and pro-Palestinian activist based in New York
Parvez Mehdi, born Pervez Akhtar (1947–2005), Pakistani ghazal singer
Qasim Mehdi, Pakistani molecular biologist and population genetics
Sahim Saleh Mehdi (born 1967), South Yemen athlete
Tanvir Mehdi (born 1972), Pakistani cricketer