Mahmudi
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mahmˈudi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mahmudi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 37K(inferred from the name graph)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 3.8K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 42K
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 Mahmudi 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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mahmudi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Mahmudi | 5 |
| ID Indonesia | #882 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 37K | listed | Mahmudi | 96 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 368as Махмуди | 1 in 5.8K | 368 | — | 2 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 382K | — | Mahmudi | 20 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 202 | 1 in 42K | 202 | Mahmudi | 2 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 58K | 9 | — | 1 |
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: State Statistical Office — living population names; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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)
Mahmudi 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 English, A gold coin formerly used in India.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 202 | #6,226 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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 Mahmudi?
- A machine transcription gives /mahmˈudi/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- In which country does Mahmudi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.7 thousand people named Mahmudi in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahmudi.
- How common is the name Mahmudi?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 202 people named Mahmudi in 2024, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.
- How common is Mahmudi compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Mahmudi is the 882nd most common surname of 451,395 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mahmudi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mahmudiThe 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, “Mahmudi” — the 882nd most common surname in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.