Mahmoud
#2,207 for boys in 2025, 64 births
- Peak · boys
- 1995 · 82 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,739since 1968
Mahmoud over time
Rank among boys' names. Mahmoud has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,207 | 64 |
| 2024 | #2,288 | 62 |
| 2023 | #2,277 | 62 |
| 2022 | #2,355 | 60 |
| 2021 | #2,695 | 47 |
| 2020 | #2,419 | 54 |
| 2019 | #2,150 | 66 |
| 2018 | #1,717 | 91 |
| 2017 | #2,217 | 60 |
| 2016 | #2,228 | 60 |
| 2015 | #2,001 | 72 |
| 2014 | #1,920 | 75 |
| 2013 | #2,009 | 68 |
| 2012 | #1,942 | 73 |
| 2011 | #2,504 | 49 |
| 2010 | #2,324 | 55 |
| 2009 | #2,077 | 66 |
| 2008 | #1,932 | 74 |
| 2007 | #2,235 | 59 |
| 2006 | #1,967 | 68 |
| 2005 | #2,008 | 62 |
| 2004 | #2,102 | 56 |
| 2003 | #1,815 | 65 |
| 2002 | #1,483 | 85 |
| 2001 | #1,543 | 78 |
| 2000 | #1,514 | 79 |
| 1999 | #1,356 | 88 |
| 1998 | #1,436 | 79 |
| 1997 | #1,386 | 79 |
| 1996 | #1,400 | 75 |
| 1995 | #1,300 | 82 |
| 1994 | #1,581 | 58 |
| 1993 | #1,620 | 55 |
| 1992 | #1,750 | 48 |
| 1991 | #1,725 | 47 |
| 1990 | #1,635 | 50 |
| 1989 | #1,733 | 44 |
| 1988 | #2,035 | 31 |
| 1987 | #2,115 | 28 |
| 1986 | #2,429 | 22 |
| 1985 | #2,116 | 26 |
| 1984 | #2,232 | 23 |
| 1983 | #1,711 | 33 |
| 1982 | #2,269 | 22 |
| 1981 | #2,779 | 16 |
| 1980 | #2,213 | 23 |
| 1979 | #2,236 | 22 |
| 1978 | #2,568 | 17 |
| 1977 | #3,037 | 13 |
| 1976 | #2,946 | 13 |
| 1975 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #3,120 | 11 |
| 1973 | #4,505 | 6 |
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| 1969 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #4,136 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Mahmoud! It came in at #4,136, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1972, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Mahmoud is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#915 · 1 in 6,628
- Illinois#1,280 · 1 in 9,910
- New York#1,760 · 1 in 16,885
- California#1,998 · 1 in 25,068
- Texas#2,080 · 1 in 25,007
Best ever in a state: #476 in Michigan, 1997.
Show every state
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| New Jersey | #915 | 6 | 1 in 6,628 |
| Illinois | #1,280 | 5 | 1 in 9,910 |
| New York | #1,760 | 5 | 1 in 16,885 |
| California | #1,998 | 7 | 1 in 25,068 |
| Texas | #2,080 | 7 | 1 in 25,007 |
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See more about Mahmoud
- 81 spots since 2024 (#2,288 → #2,207)
- 212 spots since 2020 (#2,419 → #2,207)
- 206 spots since 2015 (#2,001 → #2,207)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1995 at #1,300 (82 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 19,958 boys born in 2018 were named Mahmoud (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,689 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,300 in 1995, was only 1 in 23,216 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.3% of all boys named Mahmoud (692) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 10 | #4,136 (1968) | #4,270 |
| 1970s | 90 | #2,236 (1979) | #3,193 |
| 1980s | 268 | #1,711 (1983) | #2,163 |
| 1990s | 661 | #1,300 (1995) | #1,519 |
| 2000s | 692 | #1,483 (2002) | #1,868 |
| 2010s | 669 | #1,717 (2018) | #2,101 |
| 2020s | 349 | #2,207 (2025) | #2,374 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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