Mahad
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məhɑd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mahad is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Somalia it is the 31st most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 328K(measured from records)
- SOSomalia≈1 in 3K
- SESweden1 in 9.4K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Somalia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mahad 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | listed | Mahad | 38 |
| SO Somalia | #31 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 33 | Mahad | 32 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,084 | 1 in 9.4K | 1.1K | Mahad | 30 |
| US United States | — | 1,014 | 1 in 328K | 1K | Mahad | 130 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Mahad | 19 |
| NO Norway | — | 239 | 1 in 23K | 668 | Mahad | 23 |
| OM Oman | #224 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Mahad | 18 |
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); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Puntland PEC/TPEC local-council candidate lists. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mahad Abdalle AwadSOSecond Deputy Speaker of the Federal Parliament of Somalia
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 214 | #92,231 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 115 | #144,141 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 90 | #16,615 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Mahad?
- A machine transcription gives /məhɑd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mahad have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Mahad in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahad.
- Is Mahad a male or female name?
- Mahad 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.
- How common is the name Mahad?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 1,084 people named Mahad, about 1 in 9.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Mahad compared with other names?
- In Somalia, Mahad is the 31st most common given name of 718 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mahad?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mahadThe 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, “Mahad” — the 31st most common given name in Somalia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.