Mahmud


title: "Mahmud" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["arabic-language-surnames", "arabic-language-masculine-given-names", "turkish-masculine-given-names", "bangladeshi-masculine-given-names", "pakistani-masculine-given-names", "masculine-given-names", "bosniak-masculine-given-names"] topic_path: "geography/turkey" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmud" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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FieldValue
nameMahmud
محمود
imageII. Mahmud (Bilinmeyen Ressam).jpg
captionA painted depiction of Sultan Mahmud II
pronunciation

| | gender | Male | | meaning | Praiseworthy | | languageorigin | Arabic | | cognate | Muhammad | | derived | H-M-D root | | anglicisation | Mahmood, Mahmad, Mahmoud, Mahmut, Makhmud, Mehmood, Mehmed, Mehmud, Mahmoed, Malamud, Mahmmoud | ::

| name = Mahmud محمود | image=II. Mahmud (Bilinmeyen Ressam).jpg | imagesize= | caption=A painted depiction of Sultan Mahmud II | pronunciation=

| gender = Male | meaning = Praiseworthy | region = | languageorigin = Arabic | related names = | cognate = Muhammad | derived = H-M-D root | anglicisation = Mahmood, Mahmad, Mahmoud, Mahmut, Makhmud, Mehmood, Mehmed, Mehmud, Mahmoed, Malamud, Mahmmoud | alternative spelling = | footnotes = | wikt =

Mahmud is a transliteration of the male Arabic given name محمود (ar), common in most parts of the Islamic world. It comes from the Arabic triconsonantal root Ḥ-M-D, meaning praise, along with Muhammad.

Given name

Mahmood

Mahmoud

Mahmud

Mahmudi/Mahmudin

  • Elias Mahmoudi (born 1998), French Muay Thai fighter currently signed to ONE Championship.
  • Nur Mahmudi Ismail (born 1961), Mayor of Depok City, a satellite city of West Java located in the southern part of Jakarta.

Mahmut

Mehmood

Mehmud

  • Maulana Mehmud Hasan (1851–1920), Indian independence activist
  • Mehmud Abdukerem (born 1993), Chinese footballer who played most recently as a defender for Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard.

Surname

Mahmood

Mahmoud

Mehmood

Mehmud

Mahmud

Mahfud

  • Mahfud MD (born 1957), Indonesian politician and lawyer

Mahfouz

Compound names with the element ''Mahmud''

Fictional characters

  • Mahmoud Bishara, fictional character in the book Refugee

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