Mahmut
A Turkish name meaning "praised" or "praiseworthy". Fewer than 200 men in Poland carry it, and they are all men, so most Poles have never met one.
Mahmut Pronunciation
Mahmut is pronounced MAHKH-moot (/ˈmaxmut/).
What Mahmut means
Where Mahmut comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Mahmut is the Turkish form of the Arabic name Mahmud. It comes from the root h-m-d, "to praise," the same root behind Muhammad and the Turkish name Ahmet. The short meaning is plain: praised, praiseworthy.
Ottoman history gives it weight. Two sultans carried it, Mahmud I and Mahmud II, the latter reigning from 1808 to 1839 and remembered for remaking the empire's army and dress code. Earlier still, Mahmud of Ghazni ruled a wide realm around the year 1000.
In Poland the name arrives mostly with Turkish families, though the Tatar communities of Podlasie have known Muslim names for centuries. A teacher reading a class register in Białystok might find one Mahmut among the Kacpers and Franeks.
The name grew no Polish diminutive of its own. On a form at the urząd it keeps its Turkish shape. What it says stays fixed: praised.
How many people are named Mahmut
1 in 108909 men in Poland is named Mahmut. 196 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2257 among male names.
Mahmut as a middle name
Mahmut is a first name for 196 men in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 97/3 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4334th, between Maddox (6) and Makoto (6).
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#4332 Léonard6
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#4333 Maddox6
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#4334 Mahmut6
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#4335 Makoto6
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#4336 Maksimus6