In 2025, 64 US boys were named Mahmoud, making it the 2,220th most common boys’ name of the year, up 80 places from #2,300 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 62 boys named Mahmoud in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,303, reached in 1995. The most boys given the name in a single year was 91, in 2018. For comparison, it was #2,010 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mahmoud in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 5 babies. In all, 2,739 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 692 babies named Mahmoud.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 626 US boys were named Mahmoud; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 91. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,689 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mahmoud ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #992 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Mahmood, Mahmud and Mahamud are summarised on this page.