# Mahmoud (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mahmoud/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,739 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,739 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 481, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 49 | 2,533 |
| 2012 | 73 | 1,955 |
| 2013 | 68 | 2,013 |
| 2014 | 75 | 1,935 |
| 2015 | 72 | 2,010 |
| 2016 | 60 | 2,247 |
| 2017 | 60 | 2,229 |
| 2018 | 91 | 1,719 |
| 2019 | 66 | 2,160 |
| 2020 | 54 | 2,429 |
| 2021 | 47 | 2,716 |
| 2022 | 60 | 2,369 |
| 2023 | 62 | 2,284 |
| 2024 | 62 | 2,300 |
| 2025 | 64 | 2,220 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 14 | 1,600 |
| 2012 | 13 | 1,756 |
| 2013 | 21 | 1,183 |
| 2014 | 17 | 1,421 |
| 2015 | 17 | 1,442 |
| 2016 | 18 | 1,431 |
| 2017 | 23 | 1,178 |
| 2018 | 17 | 1,455 |
| 2019 | 16 | 1,506 |
| 2020 | 22 | 1,192 |
| 2021 | 19 | 1,329 |
| 2022 | 16 | 1,534 |
| 2023 | 17 | 1,461 |
| 2024 | 24 | 1,162 |
| 2025 | 29 | 1,035 |

## People named Mahmoud

- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 6th President of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 2005 to 2013
- Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, American basketball player (born 1969)
- Mahmoud Saber, Egyptian association football player
- Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi, Egyptian Prime Minister (1839–1904)
- Mahmoud El Khatib, Egyptian association football player
- Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary, Egyptian Quran reciter (1917–1980)
- Mahmoud Guendouz, Algerian footballer and manager
- Mahmoud Mokhtar El-Tetsh, Egyptian association football player (1905–1965)
- Mahmoud El-Gohary, Egyptian footballer (1938-2012)
- Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor (1891–1934)
- Mahmoud Alaa El-Din, Egyptian association football player
- Mahmoud Riad, Egyptian diplomat and 3rd Secretary-General of the Arab League (1917–1992)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.