In all the world, หมาด (Mat 
, หมาด 
, Dampat 
) is a common predominantly boy's, but very infrequently female first name. The first name หมาด is habitual in South-eastern Asia, particularly Indonesia, where it is quite a common boy's name, Brunei, and Malaysia, where it is quite a rare masculine name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is the most numerous in Indonesia, India, and Malaysia. Likewise, หมาด is the last name as well as the forename.
| VARIANT | COUNTRY |
|---|---|
| Mat | Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, Algeria |
| หมาด | Thailand |
| Dampat | Thailand, India |
หมาด is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Mat Cauthon , the fictional character from The Wheel of Time and Mat Burke , the musical character in the musical New Girl in Town by Bob Merrill; a simple-minded sailor.