Mahmûd
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mahmûd is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Syria it is the 21st most common given name. Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Arabic مَحْمُود (maḥmūd).
- SYSyria≈1 in 14M(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 15K
- DKDenmark1 in 77K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
780 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mahmud in SY Syria, 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 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mahmûd 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.
780 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 Mahmûd 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 Mahmûd a male or female name?
- Mahmûd 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 Mahmûd have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 780 people named Mahmûd, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahmud.
- Where is Mahmûd most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mahmûd is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mahmûd?
- In the United States, the national register counted 780 people named Mahmûd in 2020, about 1 in 426 thousand residents.
- How common is Mahmûd compared with other names?
- In Syria, Mahmûd is the 21st most common given name of 109,151 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mahm%C3%BBdThe 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, “Mahmûd” — the 21st most common given name in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.