Mahmut
given name · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mahmut is a given name, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Kurdish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Övülmüş, övülmeye değer.
- TRTürkiye1 in 446◐
- SYSyria1 in 798
- CYCyprus1 in 1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈186K ●
- Sources
- 142 ●
- 1 in 446 ◐
across 10 countries
1.9M records
Official registry-verified
Türkiye
Meaning & origin●
Övülmüş, övülmeye değer.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #25 | 183,991 | 1.9M rec. | 1 in 446 | 184K | Mahmut | 142 |
| SY Syria | #69 | 41,722 | 46K rec. | — | — | Mahmut | 9 |
| CY Cyprus | #107 | 2,264 | 2.7K rec. | — | — | Mahmut | 21 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,290 | 538 rec. | — | — | Mahmut | 62 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #624 | 1,281 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Mahmut | 6 |
| BE Belgium | — | 889 | 893 rec. | — | 5 | Mahmut | 26 |
| IQ Iraq | — | 489 | 631 rec. | — | — | Mahmut | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 451 | 382 rec. | — | 12 | Mahmut | 26 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 398 | 1.3K rec. | 1 in 43K | 398 | Mahmut | 41 |
| US United States | — | 326 | 1.9K rec. | 1 in 1M | 326 | Mahmut | 134 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 301 | 183 rec. | — | — | Mahmut | 13 |
| AL Albania | — | 287 | — | 1 in 11K | 287 | — | — |
Roughly 184K people in Türkiye bear this name (about 1 in 446). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Turkish1.9M87%
- Kurdish192K9%
- Arabic27K1%
- German17K1%
- English5.9K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 1,917,859 | 87% |
| Kurdish | 192,127 | 9% |
| Arabic | 27,171 | 1% |
| German | 16,955 | 1% |
| English | 5,886 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 151 |
| 2000 | 152 |
| 2001 | 158 |
| 2002 | 157 |
| 2003 | 164 |
| 2004 | 164 |
| 2005 | 171 |
| 2006 | 181 |
| 2007 | 184 |
| 2008 | 187 |
| 2009 | 194 |
| 2010 | 205 |
| 2011 | 207 |
| 2012 | 209 |
| 2013 | 209 |
| 2014 | 208 |
| 2015 | 209 |
| 2016 | 215 |
| 2017 | 213 |
| 2018 | 217 |
| 2019 | 226 |
| 2020 | 226 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Mahmud Pashab. 1420XKnot in their usual nameGrand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1456–1466, 1472–1474)
- Mahmud Ib. 1696TRnot in their usual name24th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1730–1754)
- Mahmud IIb. 1785TRnot in their usual name30th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808–1839)
- Recaizade Mahmud Ekremb. 1847TRnot in their usual nameTurkish author (1847–1914)
- Mahmud Shevket Pashab. 1856IQnot in their usual name212nd Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1856–1913)
- Mahmud Muhtar Paşab. 1867TRnot in their usual nameTurkish military officer and statesperson (1867–1935)
- Celal Bayarb. 1883TRnot in their usual name3rd President of the Republic of Turkey (1883–1986)
- Sadi Irmakb. 1904TRnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Turkey (1904–1990)
- Mahmut Demirb. 1970TRTurkish wrestler (born 1970)
- Mahmut Orhanb. 1993TRTurkish disc jockey and record producer (born 1993)
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 42 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used given names | 2025 | 184K | #25 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 581 | #1,037 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 398 | #1,888 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 329 | #4,100 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 326 | #27,622 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 287 | #1,424 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 258 | #4,356 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 226 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 222 | #4,445 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 216 | #1,223 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 196 | #1,244 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 180 | #959 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 · 282 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Mahmut?
- We estimate roughly 186 thousand people bear Mahmut (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Mahmut have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 184 thousand people bear Mahmut in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled mahmut.
- Where is Mahmut most common?
- Mahmut is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 446 people carrying it.
- How common is Mahmut compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Mahmut is the 25th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
- Is Mahmut a male or female name?
- Mahmut is a male 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 Mahmut mean?
- Recorded meaning: Övülmüş, övülmeye değer.
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About this data
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, “Mahmut” — the 25th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.