Mahmud

At the 2020 census, 2,523 Americans bore the surname Mahmud — 11,865th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 118,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,523
Rank: 11,865th
How common: 1 in 118,000
Per 100,000: 0.84

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Mahmud described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 70.3%
White, not Hispanic 13.4%
Black, not Hispanic 9.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.04%

Notable people called Mahmud

Ali Lutfi Mahmud (1935–2018)Egyptian Prime Minister
Ali Habib Mahmud (1939–2020)Syrian military officer
Sultan Mahmud (1350–1403)Khan of the Western Chagatai Khanate

People named Mahmud with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Mahmud

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.