Mahmuda

given name · Bangla · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mahmuda is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 29th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Bangla and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: praised, praiseworthy, lauded,.

rarermore common
  • BDBangladesh1 in 368◐
  • UZUzbekistan1 in 9.9K
  • INIndia1 in 66K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈824 ●

across 6 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
101 ●

19K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 292K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

MahmudaLatin · Bangla●392K records
МахмудаCyrillic · Uzbek●2.3K records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Махмуда in UZ Uzbekistan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and 4 more, Mahmooda in PK Pakistan, EG Egypt, AF Afghanistan and 1 more, Makhmuda in TR Türkiye and Mehmuda in CN China.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

praised, praiseworthy, lauded,

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Mahmuda is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh#29772,5501.7K rec.—listedMahmuda63
IN India—49,25511K rec.—10Mahmuda36
UZ Uzbekistan—1,373129 rec.—listedМахмуда9
RU Russia—1,300311 rec.—#1,723Махмуда53
NG Nigeria—7831.1K rec.——Mahmuda21
US United States—6833.1K rec.1 in 487K683Mahmuda101
KG Kyrgyzstan—671343 rec.——Махмуда8
GB United Kingdom—594425 rec.——Mahmuda37
AU Australia—219215 rec.——Mahmuda24
PK Pakistan—18840 rec.——Mahmooda12
TJ Tajikistan—1071 rec.——Махмуда2
MY Malaysia—9937 rec.——Mahmuda8

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Bangla392K48%
  • English387K48%
  • Hindi25K3%
  • 9701%
  • Telugu9571%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Bangla391,57448%
English387,34548%
Hindi25,2033%
9701%
Telugu9571%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Mahmuda is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name1.1K records spelled Mahmuda3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Also written Māhmuda, Māhmudā

  • Uzbek given name98 records spelled Mahmuda2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Uzbekistan

    Also written Maḣmuda

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

010020030040019201940196019802000354 · 1967

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Mahmuda in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1911–2015
Yearrecords
19111
19141
19152
19162
19176
19183
19192
19203
19217
192213
19238
192411
19259
192614
192718
192815
192934
193017
193118
193260
193328
193441
193548
193644
193787
193855
193971
194072
194155
1942122
194363
1944130
1945107
1946117
1947182
194897
1949125
1950137
1951105
1952222
1953106
1954165
1955159
1956200
1957197
1958193
1959254
1960218
1961198
1962343
1963218
1964306
1965255
1966305
1967354
1968264
1969259
1970247
1971233
1972283
1973192
1974224
1975205
1976199
1977206
1978154
1979157
1980103
1981154
1982178
1983185
1984161
1985163
1986150
1987142
1988106
1989111
1990121
1991107
1992108
1993100
199484
199565
199652
199750
199819
19992
200854
20091
201039
201115
201217
20138
201441
201510

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 95 years between 1911–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 23 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Mahmuda
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—957#2,703
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020683#16,455
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1967354—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1962343—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1964306—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1966305—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1972283—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1968264—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1969259—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1965255—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1959254—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1970247—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 210 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mahmuda?
We estimate roughly 824 people bear Mahmuda (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Mahmuda have the most bearers?
Mahmuda is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled mahmuda.
How common is Mahmuda compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Mahmuda is the 29th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
Is Mahmuda a male or female name?
Mahmuda is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Mahmuda mean?
Recorded meaning: praised, praiseworthy, lauded,
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mahmuda” — the 29th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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