Mohammed

What Mohammed means

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

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

Source: Wiktionary, “Mohammed” (revision 94541720) and “Muhammad” (revision 93499266), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Mohammed?

US: Falling: down from #511 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #29 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2014, when 566 boys got the name (#498 that year). First in the US records in 1922.

How common

• About 1 in 3,515 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 159 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 655 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 MI (1.17 per 1,000 boys), NY (1.07 per 1,000 boys), IL (0.89 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Mohammed is #595 in the US and #20 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 Mohammed were boys.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Muhammad1,473 US · 5,957 E&W
• Mohammad529 US · 895 E&W
• Mohamed568 US · 240 E&W
• Muhammed67 US · 385 E&W
• Mohamad73 US · 43 E&W
• Mouhamed86 US · 10 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 Mohammed

Boys

• Abdullah#763“servant of God”^*
• Yousef#744Editor’s note Up from #788 in 2015 to #744 in 2025 in the US
• Hamza#541“lion”^*
• Mustafa#760“the chosen one”^*
• Ahmed#703Variant of Ahmad, meaning “praiseworthy”^*
• Ali#306“high, exalted”^*

For a sister

• Alia#587Feminine form of Ali, meaning “high, exalted”^*
• Noor#659“light”^*
• Maryam#351Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #52 vs #351 in 2025
• Aleah#965Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #444 in 2015, #965 in 2025
• Aliyah#263“ascent”^*
• Zahra#538Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 8 babies

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 Mohammed’s. Rank is US 2025.