Mohamed

What Mohamed means

Variant of Muhammad, meaning “praised, commendable, laudable”

variant of Muhammad || Transliteration of Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad, “praised, commendable, laudable”), the passive participle of حَمَّدَ (ḥammada, “to praise, commend, laud, extol”).

Source: Wiktionary, “Mohamed” (revision 92481984) and “Muhammad” (revision 93499266), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Mohamed?

US: Falling: down from #451 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #182 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2014, when 712 boys got the name (#428 that year). First in the US records in 1943.

How common

• About 1 in 3,007 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,133 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,228 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MN (2.82 per 1,000 boys), NY (1.23 per 1,000 boys), MI (1.04 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Mohamed is #527 in the US and #209 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Mohamed were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Mohammed486 US · 1,712 E&W
• Mohammad529 US · 895 E&W
• Muhammed67 US · 385 E&W
• Mohamad73 US · 43 E&W
• Mouhamed86 US · 10 E&W
• Muhamad10 US · 13 E&W
• Mahamed11 US · 9 E&W
• Muhamed10 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Mohamed

Boys

• Hamza#541“lion”^*
• Ahmed#703Variant of Ahmad, meaning “praiseworthy”^*
• Abdullah#763“servant of God”^*
• Nasir#486Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #486 vs #2,133 in 2025
• Yousef#744Editor’s note Up from #788 in 2015 to #744 in 2025 in the US
• Zahir#738Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 7 babies

For a sister

• Lylah#584Editor’s note Up from #629 in 2015 to #584 in 2025 in the US
• Sariyah#624“a cloud that comes by night”^*
• Aleah#965Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #444 in 2015, #965 in 2025
• Leyla#611Editor’s note Up from #782 in 2015 to #611 in 2025 in the US
• Lila#186“lilac”^*
• Leila#259Editor’s note Steady in the US: #247 in 2015 and #259 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Arabic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Mohamed’s. Rank is US 2025.