Given name & surname
Mahmood
“one who is praiseworthy”
Mahmood is a variant of Mahmud. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is praiseworthy.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mahmood is a variant of Mahmud. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is praiseworthy.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mahmood through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 365
- 365 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1997
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,497 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −46%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,497 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 1997. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,362 as a first name in 2020; 7,342 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mahmood’s family of names
In English usage, Mahmood has a related form in Mohammed. In English usage, Mahmood has a conventional equivalent in the French form Mahmoud. Mahmood has a related form in Mahmud.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Mahmood
- Mahmood Shah Bahmani IIRuler of Bahamani Sultanate (c. 1482–1518)1470–1518
- Mahmood Abdullafootball playerborn 1980
- Mahmood SariolghalamIranian Political Scientistborn 1959
- Mahmood EbrahimzadehIranian footballer and managerborn 1953
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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