Mahmoud
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Arabic: Muslim/Arabic: 'fulfillment'; popular in North Africa
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmæmud/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mahmoud is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common given name.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 92(inferred from the name graph)
- JOJordan≈1 in 164
- KWKuwait≈1 in 462
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 Mahmoud 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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 380 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 92 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mahmood in PK Pakistan, BH Bahrain and Mahmud in BD Bangladesh.
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)
From the Arabic personal name Mahmud, literally 'praiseworthy'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mahmoud is read(measured from records)
Mahmoud is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Arabic78%
Muslim/Arabic: 'fulfillment'; popular in North Africa
as a nameAfrican Names
praised; variant spelling of Mahmud
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- English5.5%
From the Arabic personal name Mahmud, literally 'praiseworthy'.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mahmoud 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #7 | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 92 | listed | Mahmoud | 254 |
| BD Bangladesh | #88 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | listed | Mahmud | 159 |
| SY Syria | #25 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 186 | — | Mahmoud | 80 |
| JO Jordan | #19 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 164 | — | Mahmoud | 153 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈65,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Mahmood | 159 |
| US United States | — | 7,671 | 1 in 43K | 7.7K | Mahmoud | 380 |
| KW Kuwait | #39 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 462 | — | Mahmoud | 101 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 353 | — | Mahmood | 96 |
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. 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)
Mahmoud 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 Swedish, Mahmoud (m.fl. former) är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’den lovvärde, den lovprisade’. Namnet har samma rot som → Mohammad. Mahmut är en turkisk form.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Mahmud of Ghaznib. 971AFnot in their usual nameSultan of the Ghaznavid Empire from 998 to 1030
- Mahmud al-Kashgarib. 1029CNnot in their usual nameTurkic scholar and lexicographer
- Nur ad-Dinb. 1118IQnot in their usual nameEmir of Aleppo (1146–1174) and Damascus (1154–1174)
- Mahmud Ghazanb. 1271IRnot in their usual namethe seventh Ilkhan of Mongol Ilkhanate (1295–1304)
- Qutuzb. 1300UZnot in their usual name3rd Sultan of the Egyptian Mamluk Sultanate (r. 1259–1260)
- Mahmud Abbasb. 1935PSnot in their usual namepresident of the Palestinian Authority since 2005
- Mahmoud Darwichb. 1941PSThe national Palestinian poet, and author (1941–2008)
- Mahmood Mamdanib. 1946UGnot in their usual nameUgandan academic (born 1946)
- Mahmoud Jibrilb. 1952LYLibyan politician (1952-2020)
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejadb. 1956IR6th President of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 2005 to 2013
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 93 sources across 48 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.8K | #6,756 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.3K | #9,709 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,463 |
Reference works 10
- 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
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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
- What does the name Mahmoud mean?
- In Arabic, Muslim/Arabic: 'fulfillment'; popular in North Africa
- Where does the name Mahmoud come from?
- From the Arabic personal name Mahmud, literally 'praiseworthy'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Mahmoud have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Mahmoud in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahmoud.
- How do you pronounce Mahmoud?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmæmud/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Mahmoud a male or female name?
- Mahmoud 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 Mahmoud?
- In the etymology graph, Mahmut, Mahmud and Makhmud are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Mahmoud?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,671 people named Mahmoud in 2020, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
- How common is Mahmoud compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Mahmoud is the 7th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mahmoudThe 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, “Mahmoud” — the 7th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.