Masood
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Masood is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 99th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Urdu, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from a personal name based on Arabic mas'ud ‘lucky’, ‘fortunate’, ‘happy’.
- BDBangladesh1 in 882◐
- AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 6.2K
- SASaudi Arabia1 in 9.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.7K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 196 ●
- 1 in 15K ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
121K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Masud in BD Bangladesh, IN India, SA Saudi Arabia and 6 more and Mas'Ud in ID Indonesia.
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●
from a personal name based on Arabic mas'ud ‘lucky’, ‘fortunate’, ‘happy’. 'Abdullah ibn Mas'ud was one of the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #99 | 322,175 | 18K rec. | — | listed | Masud | 117 |
| IN India | — | 110,197 | 46K rec. | — | 950 | Masud | 98 |
| PK Pakistan | #306 | 17,235 | 3.8K rec. | — | 10 | Masood | 102 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,422 | 3.6K rec. | — | listed | Masood | 99 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #499 | 2,376 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Masud | 53 |
| US United States | — | 1,723 | 31K rec. | 1 in 193K | 2.1K | Masood | 196 |
| IR Iran | — | 1,539 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Masood | 36 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 1,425 | 700 rec. | — | — | Masud | 22 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 1,421 | 429 rec. | — | listed | Mas'Ud | 61 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #310 | 1,207 | 1.9K rec. | — | — | Masood | 69 |
| CA Canada | — | 737 | 1.6K rec. | — | 1 | Masood | 57 |
| AU Australia | — | 709 | 1.4K rec. | — | 1 | Masood | 80 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi26K24%
- Urdu23K21%
- English20K18%
- 12K11%
- Telugu5.7K5%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 25,792 | 24% |
| Urdu | 23,197 | 21% |
| English | 19,597 | 18% |
| 11,617 | 11% | |
| Telugu | 5,654 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Masood is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, prosperous, happy, dutiful, fortunate, lucky
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1918 | 1 |
| 1919 | 1 |
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 2 |
| 1924 | 1 |
| 1928 | 4 |
| 1929 | 4 |
| 1930 | 1 |
| 1931 | 6 |
| 1932 | 9 |
| 1933 | 1 |
| 1934 | 3 |
| 1935 | 4 |
| 1936 | 7 |
| 1937 | 9 |
| 1938 | 3 |
| 1939 | 15 |
| 1940 | 17 |
| 1941 | 11 |
| 1942 | 31 |
| 1943 | 19 |
| 1944 | 27 |
| 1945 | 18 |
| 1946 | 23 |
| 1947 | 27 |
| 1948 | 27 |
| 1949 | 35 |
| 1950 | 29 |
| 1951 | 29 |
| 1952 | 56 |
| 1953 | 27 |
| 1954 | 41 |
| 1955 | 52 |
| 1956 | 43 |
| 1957 | 65 |
| 1958 | 68 |
| 1959 | 68 |
| 1960 | 66 |
| 1961 | 67 |
| 1962 | 129 |
| 1963 | 71 |
| 1964 | 118 |
| 1965 | 89 |
| 1966 | 88 |
| 1967 | 112 |
| 1968 | 77 |
| 1969 | 93 |
| 1970 | 101 |
| 1971 | 101 |
| 1972 | 121 |
| 1973 | 109 |
| 1974 | 121 |
| 1975 | 108 |
| 1976 | 133 |
| 1977 | 100 |
| 1978 | 92 |
| 1979 | 106 |
| 1980 | 54 |
| 1981 | 81 |
| 1982 | 114 |
| 1983 | 135 |
| 1984 | 121 |
| 1985 | 83 |
| 1986 | 86 |
| 1987 | 121 |
| 1988 | 108 |
| 1989 | 116 |
| 1990 | 111 |
| 1991 | 112 |
| 1992 | 136 |
| 1993 | 126 |
| 1994 | 116 |
| 1995 | 86 |
| 1996 | 64 |
| 1997 | 35 |
| 1998 | 46 |
| 1999 | 8 |
| 2008 | 20 |
| 2010 | 8 |
| 2012 | 4 |
| 2013 | 1 |
| 2014 | 29 |
| 2015 | 3 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 84 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Taftazanib. 1322IRnot in their usual namePersian theologian, literary and philosopher (1322-1390)
- Masoud Barzanib. 1946IQnot in their usual name1st president of Iraqi Kurdistan (2005-17)
- Masoud Pezeshkianb. 1954IRnot in their usual name9th President of Iran (2024-) and former Co-Interim Supreme Leader of Iran (in 2026)
- Masoud Zaribafanb. 1957IRnot in their usual nameIranian politician
- Massoud Ali-Mohammadib. 1959IRnot in their usual nameIranian physicist (1959-2010)
- Masud Ghnaimb. 1965ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli-Arab Member of the Knesset, for United Arab List
- Masoud Khameneib. 1974IRnot in their usual nameIranian cleric
- Masud Gharahkhanib. 1982IRnot in their usual nameNorwegian politician
- Masoud Shojaeib. 1984IRnot in their usual nameIranian footballer
- Masoud Azizib. 1985AFnot in their usual nameAfghan athletics competitor
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 45 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 5.7K | #925 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,826 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,849 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1.4K | #1,235 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #11,408 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 765 | #29,181 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 381 | #11,281 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 211 | #5,042 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 192 | #4,933 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 183 | #17,731 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 183 | #17,656 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 137 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 249 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Masood?
- We estimate roughly 2.7 thousand people bear Masood (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Masood have the most bearers?
- Masood is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled masud.
- How common is Masood compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Masood is the 99th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
- Is Masood a male or female name?
- Masood 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 Masood mean?
- Recorded meaning: from a personal name based on Arabic mas'ud ‘lucky’, ‘fortunate’, ‘happy’.
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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, “Masood” — the 99th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.