Mahmuda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: praised, praiseworthy, lauded,
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mamudɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mahmuda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 486K
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 7.8Kas Makhmuda
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 Mahmuda 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
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈63,000 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 Махмуда in UZ Uzbekistan, KG Kyrgyzstan, Mahmooda in AF Afghanistan and Mehmuda in CN China.
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)
praised, praiseworthy, lauded,
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mahmuda 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 | #169 | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | listed | Mahmuda | 66 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Mahmuda | 22 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | listed | Махмуда | 10 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 447K | — | Mehmuda | 6 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Mahmooda | 4 |
| US United States | — | 685 | 1 in 486K | 683 | Mahmuda | 107 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Махмуда | 7 |
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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mahmudab. 1961BDbadminton player
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 24 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Mahmuda mean, and where does it come from?
- praised, praiseworthy, lauded, Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Mahmuda?
- A machine transcription gives /mamudɑ/ (IPA) for Bangla.
- Is Mahmuda a male or female name?
- Mahmuda is a female 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 Mahmuda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 63 thousand people named Mahmuda in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahmuda.
- How common is the name Mahmuda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 685 people named Mahmuda in 2020, about 1 in 486 thousand residents.
- How common is Mahmuda compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Mahmuda is the 169th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mahmuda?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mahmudaThe 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, “Mahmuda” — the 169th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.