Mahmood
Mahmood was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,493 among boys’ names; 365 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mahmood by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mahmood?
#11,493 among boys’ names, 2025
Mahmood fell from #8,451 in 2015 to #11,493 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.7 to 3.5 per million.
16 babies in 1997, the peak
Mahmood peaked in 1997, when 16 boys were given it, #4,166 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,493 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,435 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,530 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,343 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,317 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,622 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,942 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,569 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,215 | 7.4 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,451 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #11,617 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,716 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,336 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,928 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,080 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 12 | #7,032 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,469 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,789 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,456 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,336 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,105 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,293 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,278 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,947 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,324 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,342 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,166 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,877 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,217 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,154 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,302 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,947 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,863 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,310 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,994 | 4.0 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,628 | 3.2 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,520 | 3.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,777 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,162 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,512 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mahmood a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mahmood has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mahmood: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mahmood, and how old are they?
An estimated 356 Americans named Mahmood and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 13 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,362 people named Mahmood (23 women and girls, 2,339 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 324 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,348 babies since 1880, Mahmood is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 75 babies (8.0%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mahmood
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mahmood and names like it
- Compare Mahmood and MahmoudBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMahmood peaked in 1997.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Mahmood.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mahmood alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.