Maḣmud
given name · Latin script
Maḣmud is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Arabic مَحْمُود (maḥmūd).
- TJTajikistan≈1 in 1.4Kas Махмуд(inferred from the name graph)
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 1.8Kas Makhmud
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 4.5Kas Makhmud
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Maḣmud itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- 1 in 384K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,700 named Махмуд, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Махмуд in RU Russia, UZ Uzbekistan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more, Mahmoud in SE Sweden, HR Croatia and Makhmud in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Ultimately from Arabic مَحْمُود (maḥmūd).
Sources 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Nordic Names
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maḣmud counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #509 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 16K | #321 | Махмуд | 135 |
| US United States | — | 7,671as Mahmoud | 1 in 43K | 7.7K | Makhmud | 26 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #112 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | listed | Махмуд | 26 |
| SE Sweden | — | 6,747as Mahmoud | 1 in 1.5K | 6.7K | Mahmoud | 6 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #221 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Махмуд | 9 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #493 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Махмуд | 12 |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,260as Mahmoud | 1 in 4.7K | 1.3K | — | — |
| HR Croatia | — | 11 | 1 in 384K | 11 | Mahmoud | 12 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Maḣmud mean, and where does it come from?
- Ultimately from Arabic مَحْمُود (maḥmūd). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and 3 other sources.
- Is Maḣmud a male or female name?
- Maḣmud is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Maḣmud have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.7 thousand people named Махмуд in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Maḣmud most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maḣmud is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 384 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Maḣmud?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 11 people named Maḣmud in 2021, about 1 in 384 thousand residents.
- How common is Maḣmud compared with other names?
- In Russia, Maḣmud is the 509th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ma%E1%B8%A3mudThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Maḣmud” — the 509th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.