Mahmoud
Mahmoud was given to 64 boys in 2025, #2,220 among boys’ names; 2,739 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,670 Americans named Mahmoud and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 11 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mahmoud by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mahmoud mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Mahmoud is “a male given name from Arabic”
Borrowed from Arabic مَحْمُود (maḥmūd).
/ma.mud/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mahmoud?
#2,220 among boys’ names, 2025
Mahmoud fell from #2,010 in 2015 to #2,220 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 37.6 to 37.5 per million.
91 babies in 2018, the peak
Mahmoud peaked in 2018, when 91 boys were given it, #1,719 among boys’ names. The 64 births of 2025 are 70% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64 | #2,220 | 37.5 |
| 2024 | 62 | #2,300 | 36.0 |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,283 | 36.2 |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,368 | 34.4 |
| 2021 | 47 | #2,715 | 26.9 |
| 2020 | 54 | #2,428 | 31.3 |
| 2019 | 66 | #2,159 | 36.8 |
| 2018 | 91 | #1,719 | 50.1 |
| 2017 | 60 | #2,228 | 32.4 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,247 | 31.6 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 72 | #2,010 | 37.6 |
| 2014 | 75 | #1,934 | 39.0 |
| 2013 | 68 | #2,012 | 35.9 |
| 2012 | 73 | #1,954 | 38.5 |
| 2011 | 49 | #2,532 | 25.8 |
| 2010 | 55 | #2,342 | 28.7 |
| 2009 | 66 | #2,086 | 33.3 |
| 2008 | 74 | #1,942 | 36.3 |
| 2007 | 59 | #2,248 | 28.4 |
| 2006 | 68 | #1,983 | 33.1 |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,024 | 31.0 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,117 | 28.2 |
| 2003 | 65 | #1,829 | 32.9 |
| 2002 | 85 | #1,490 | 43.8 |
| 2001 | 78 | #1,556 | 40.1 |
| 2000 | 79 | #1,529 | 40.2 |
| 1999 | 88 | #1,360 | 45.8 |
| 1998 | 79 | #1,441 | 41.3 |
| 1997 | 79 | #1,390 | 41.9 |
| 1996 | 75 | #1,407 | 39.6 |
| 1995 | 82 | #1,298 | 43.1 |
| 1994 | 58 | #1,588 | 30.0 |
| 1993 | 55 | #1,625 | 28.0 |
| 1992 | 48 | #1,763 | 24.0 |
| 1991 | 47 | #1,729 | 23.3 |
| 1990 | 50 | #1,644 | 24.3 |
| 1989 | 44 | #1,745 | 22.0 |
| 1988 | 31 | #2,071 | 16.2 |
| 1987 | 28 | #2,152 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 22 | #2,473 | 11.9 |
| 1985 | 26 | #2,156 | 14.1 |
| 1984 | 23 | #2,269 | 12.7 |
| 1983 | 33 | #1,737 | 18.4 |
| 1982 | 22 | #2,313 | 12.1 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,846 | 8.9 |
| 1980 | 23 | #2,258 | 12.9 |
| 1979 | 22 | #2,286 | 12.8 |
| 1978 | 17 | #2,622 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,134 | 7.9 |
| 1976 | 13 | #3,031 | 8.3 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,163 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,244 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,862 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,781 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,513 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mahmoud a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mahmoud has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mahmoud: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mahmoud, and how old are they?
2,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,739 Americans ever recorded as Mahmoud. The median Mahmoud alive today is 22 years old; half are between 11 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 7,671 people named Mahmoud (19 women and girls, 7,652 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,358 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 112 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 630 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 835 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Mahmoud born?
The states with the most babies named Mahmoud are California, Texas and New Jersey, with 67% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,118 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,211 | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #992 | 1.7× |
| New York | 5 | #1,940 | 2.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,418 | 1.7× |
Where Mahmoud is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mahmoud is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1968 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Mahmoud with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,441 babies since 1880, Mahmoud is the most given (80% of them). In 2025 it was given to 64 of their 75 babies (85%), again the 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 Mahmoud
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 Mahmoud and names like it
- Compare Mahmoud and MahmoodBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMahmoud peaked in 2018.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mahmoud since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Mahmoud: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Mahmoud.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mahmoud alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.