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Baby name
Mahmoud
Boy
Origin of the name
Mahmoud comes from the Arabic Mahmud, “praiseworthy.”
Rising name
2,739births since 1880
2010sgeneration
No. 1717rank at its peak, in 2018
Where babies named Mahmoud are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Mahmoud is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Mahmoud is most common in Michigan (4.4 times), New York (4.1) and Illinois (3.3), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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