Mahmoud
Mahmoud is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 62 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 620.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201891 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1968
- 2,674people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,674 boys have been named Mahmoud in the United States since 1968, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 91 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2000s alone account for 26%.
By decade
In 2018, its biggest year
Mahmoud was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2018 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Oliver. See all of 2018.
Names that rose and fell with Mahmoud
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Syedpeak 2000
- Chancepeak 1996
- Mohamadpeak 1999
- Adilpeak 2003
- Jansenpeak 1994
- Nicolaspeak 2003
- Nabeelpeak 1999
- Amerpeak 2003
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.