Masoud
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Masoud is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country. In Oman it is the 20th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Masoud (m.fl. former) är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’lycklig; lyckosam’.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- IRIran≈1 in 12K
- EGEgypt≈1 in 46K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 212 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Masoud (m.fl. former) är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’lycklig; lyckosam’. En turkisk form är Mesut. Se även namnet → Saad, som innehåller samma rot.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Masoud 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #462 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 7 | Masoud | 34 |
| AF Afghanistan | #210 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 1 | Masoud | 19 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Masoud | 95 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 46K | listed | Masoud | 99 |
| OM Oman | #20 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Masoud | 44 |
| US United States | — | 1,726 | 1 in 193K | 2.1K | Masoud | 212 |
| LY Libya | #65 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Masoud | 31 |
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; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; the wgnd-eg-names register; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Masoud is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, Fortunate; lucky.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Taftazanib. 1322IRnot in their usual namePersian theologian, literary and philosopher (1322-1390)
- Masoud Barzanib. 1946IQ1st president of Iraqi Kurdistan (2005-17)
- Masoud Pezeshkianb. 1954IR9th President of Iran (2024-) and former Co-Interim Supreme Leader of Iran (in 2026)
- Masoud Zaribafanb. 1957IRIranian politician
- Massoud Ali-Mohammadib. 1959IRnot in their usual nameIranian physicist (1959-2010)
- Masud Ghnaimb. 1965ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli-Arab Member of the Knesset, for United Arab List
- Masoud Khameneib. 1974IRIranian cleric
- Masud Gharahkhanib. 1982IRnot in their usual nameNorwegian politician
- Masoud Shojaeib. 1984IRIranian footballer
- Masoud Azizib. 1985AFAfghan athletics competitor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 49 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.7K | #8,403 |
| TZ Tanzania | INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results | 2020 | 7 | #23 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 6 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #8,403 |
| AF Afghanistan | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #274 |
| EG Egypt | WGND 2.0 — Egypt given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Masoud mean?
- Recorded meaning: Masoud (m.fl. former) är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’lycklig; lyckosam’.
- Is Masoud a male or female name?
- Masoud 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.
- What are other forms of the name Masoud?
- In the etymology graph, Mesut, Masood and Mas'Ud are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Masoud have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Masoud in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled masoud.
- How common is the name Masoud?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,726 people named Masoud in 2020, about 1 in 193 thousand residents.
- How common is Masoud compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Masoud is the 462nd most common given name of 37,285 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/masoudThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Masoud” — the 462nd most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.