Masud
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ‘fortunate, lucky’; also Massudy and Masudi
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məzəd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Masud is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 21st most common given name.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 446(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 8.1K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 3.8Kas Masood
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 Masud 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 246 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 446 (inferred from the name graph)
≈360,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Masood in US United States, PK Pakistan, BH Bahrain and Mashud in NG Nigeria.
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)
‘fortunate, lucky’; also Massudy and Masudi.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Masud 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #21 | ≈360,000 est. | ≈1 in 446 | listed | Masud | 119 |
| PK Pakistan | #301 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | 10 | Masood | 120 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 1 | Masud | 16 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | Mashud | 17 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #494 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Masud | 55 |
| US United States | — | 1,726as Masoud | 1 in 193K | 2.1K | Masood | 246 |
| OM Oman | #84 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Masud | 10 |
| BH Bahrain | #223 | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Masood | 23 |
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; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; the african-book-names-hodari-2003 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)
Masud is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Arabic name meaning 'fortunate, lucky'.
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In Swahili, Swahili/Muslim: "fortunate, happy".
as a nameAfrican Names
In German, männl. Vom. arabischen Ursprungs (arab. mas'üd »glücklich« zu arab. sa'ïda »glücklich sein«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Fortunate.
as a nameThe African book of names
Afortunado, feliz
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Masud Sabrib. 1886CNChinese general (1886–1952)
- Masoud Barzanib. 1946IQnot in their usual name1st president of Iraqi Kurdistan (2005-17)
- Masoud Pezeshkianb. 1954IRnot in their usual name9th President of Iran (2024-) and former Co-Interim Supreme Leader of Iran (in 2026)
- Massoud Ali-Mohammadib. 1959IRnot in their usual nameIranian physicist (1959-2010)
- Masud Ghnaimb. 1965ILIsraeli-Arab Member of the Knesset, for United Arab List
- Masoud Khameneib. 1974IRnot in their usual nameIranian cleric
- Masud Gharahkhanib. 1982IRNorwegian politician
- Masoud Shojaeib. 1984IRnot in their usual nameIranian footballer
- Masoud Azizib. 1985AFnot in their usual nameAfghan 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 63 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 596 | #18,138 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1 | #18,138 |
| NG Nigeria | The African Book of Names (Hodari, 2003) | — | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | African Names (Julia Stewart, 1993) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Masud mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘fortunate, lucky’; also Massudy and Masudi. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Masud?
- A machine transcription gives /məzəd/ (IPA) for Bangla.
- Is Masud a male or female name?
- Masud 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 Masud?
- In the etymology graph, Mesut is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Masud have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 365 thousand people named Masud in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled masud.
- How common is the name Masud?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,726 people named Masoud in 2020, about 1 in 193 thousand residents.
- How common is Masud compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Masud is the 21st most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Masud?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/masudThe 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, “Masud” — the 21st most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.