Mahmood

**Mahmud** (also spelled **Mahmood**, **Mahmoud**, **Mahmut**, **Mehmood**, **Mahmoed** or **Mehmud**) is the main transliteration of the Arabic given name (, *Maḥmūd*) that comes from the Arabic triconsonantal root of Ḥ-M-D *"Praise"*. The pronunciation of the name is [ mah-**mood** ]. 

Despite sharing the same triconsonantal root, this name is distinct from the name *Muhammad*. One of the Islamic prophet Muhammad's many names is *Mahmud*.

The name is common in most parts of the Islamic world; it is used as a given name for males, while the variant *Mahmuda* is given to females.This is a unique name (not in the top 1000 newborn names in the US in 2021). 

## Given name
*Mahmud Kanafani, Lebanese Singer
*Mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman Empire 1730-1754
*Mahmud II, Sultan of Ottoman Empire 1808-1839
*Mahmud II of Great Seljuk, Sultan of Baghdad 1118
*Mahmud of Ghazni, ruler of Ghazni 997-1030
*Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority
*Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran
*Mahmoud Ahmed, Ethiopian musician
*Mehmood Ali, Indian actor
*Mehmood Bhatti, Pakistani fashion designer
*Mahmut Celal Bayar, third President of Turkey
*Mahmut Bezgin, Turkish footballer
*Mahmut Boz, Turkish footballer
*Mahmut Cuhruk, Turkish judge
*Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet  
*Mahmut Demir, Turkish sport wrestler
*Mahmoud Guinia, Moroccan singer
*Maulana Mehmud Hasan, Indian independence activist
*Mahmut Hoşgiz, Turkish footballer 
*Mahmud Hotaki, Afghan ruler
*Mahmud Khalid, Ghanaian politician 
*Mehmud Khurd, Pakistani ruler
*Mahmud al-Kashgari, Turkish scholar
*Mahmoud Jaballah, Egyptian-Canadian Jihad member
*Mahmud Mahmud, Iranian politician
*Mahmoud el-Meliguy, Egyptian Actor
*Mahmud Al-Nashaf, Israeli Arab politician
*Mahmud Nazari, Afghan academic
*Mahmud Saedon Othman, Malay intellectual
*Mahmut Özgener, Turkish Football Federation president
*Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt 1945-1946 & 1946-1948
*Mehmood Quaraishy, Kenyan cricketer
*Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, American basketball player
*Mahmud Shah (Sultan of Malacca), Sultan of Malacca 1488-1528
*Mahmud Shah Durrani, ruler of Afghanistan 1801-1803 & 1809-1818
*Mehmood Sham, Pakistani journalist
*Mahmut Şenol, Turkish author
*Mehmood ul Hassan Kaukab Al-Tabrezi, Pakistani poet
*Mahmud Tarzi, Afghan journalist
*Mahmut Tekdemir, Turkish footballer
*Mahmut Yıldırım, Kurdish contract killer
*Mahmut Yilmaz, German footballer
*Mohamad Mahmoed, Netherlands footballer
*Mahmoud Fawzi, Egyptian politician and diplomat; prime minister (1970-1972)

## Surname
*Abid Hamid Mahmud, Iraqi general
*Ahmad Mahmoud, Iranian novelist
*Alessandro Mahmoud, Italian singer
*Arif Mehmood, Pakistani footballer
*Arshad Mehmood (composer), Pakistani actor and music composer
*Arshad Mehmood (singer), Pakistani singer
*Faakhir Mehmood, Pakistani singer 
*Hasnat Mehmood, Pakistani artist
*Karem Mahmoud, Egyptian singer
*Kashif Mehmood, Pakistani actor
*Khaled Mahmud, Bangladeshi cricketer
*Sajid Mahmood, English cricketer
*Salim Mehmud, Pakistani rocket scientist
*Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, Pakistani nuclear engineer
*Shahid Mahmood, Pakistani cricketer
*Rashid Mahmood, Pakistani actor
*Tahir Mahmood, Indian jurist
*Younis Mahmoud, Iraqi footballer

## Animals
*Mahmoud (elephant), an elephant associated with the Year of the Elephant in Islamic history
*Mahmoud (horse), Epsom Derby winner in 1936

## References