Mahfuz
given name · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Korunmuş, gözetilmiş
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mahfuz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mahfuz is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 33K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 89K
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 93K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 73 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. Korunmuş, gözetilmiş. 2. Gizlenmiş, saklanmış.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mahfuz 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Mahfuz | 35 |
| AF Afghanistan | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Mahfuz | 2 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 89K | listed | — | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Mahfuz | 21 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 666K | — | Mahfuz | 11 |
| SG Singapore | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Mahfuz | 9 |
| SE Sweden | 29 | 1 in 352K | 29 | — | 2 |
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Mahfuz is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, protected, محفوظ
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, safeguarded, well-protected. ,a Ja He gane col 58 tune olyos "Nay, it is a glorious Qur’an in a guarded tablet." (surat al-Buruz 85:21-22). See Masun ¢ gue»
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, safeguarded; well-protected; preserved; secure
as a nameA Dictionary of 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)
- Al-Kalwadhānīb. 1041IQnot in their usual namemuhaddith
- Mahfouz Abdel Rahmanb. 1933EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian writer
- Mahfuz Ullahb. 1950BDBangladeshi writer, journalist, television personality and environmentalist
- Mahfuzul Haqueb. 1969BDnot in their usual nameBangladeshi Deobandi Islamic Scholar
- Mahfouz AdedimejiNGnot in their usual namePioneer Vice Chancellor of Ahman Pategi University
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 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 8 | #44,637 |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Mahfuz?
- A machine transcription gives /mahfuz/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Mahfuz mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Korunmuş, gözetilmiş.
- Is Mahfuz a male or female name?
- Mahfuz 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 Mahfuz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Mahfuz in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahfuz.
- How common is the name Mahfuz?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 29 people named Mahfuz, about 1 in 352 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mahfuz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mahfuzThe 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, “Mahfuz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.