Muhammed

What Muhammed 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, “Muhammed” (revision 93000399) and “Muhammad” (revision 93499266), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Muhammed?

US: Falling: down from #1691 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #121 in 2015, #129 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 102 boys got the name (#1650 that year). First in the US records in 1970.

How common

• About 1 in 25,494 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 706 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,455 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 WA (0.27 per 1,000 boys), MD (0.22 per 1,000 boys), NY (0.14 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Muhammed is #2145 in the US and #129 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 Muhammed were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Muhammad1,473 US · 5,957 E&W
• Mohammed486 US · 1,712 E&W
• Mohammad529 US · 895 E&W
• Mohamed568 US · 240 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 Muhammed

Boys

• Yousef#744Editor’s note Up from #788 in 2015 to #744 in 2025 in the US
• Hamza#541“lion”^*
• Abdullah#763“servant of God”^*
• Zayn#251“beauty”^*
• Mustafa#760“the chosen one”^*
• Ameer#980Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1969, with 14 babies

For a sister

• Alia#587Feminine form of Ali, meaning “high, exalted”^*
• Noor#659“light”^*
• Aleah#965Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #444 in 2015, #965 in 2025
• Maryam#351Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #52 vs #351 in 2025
• Aliyah#263“ascent”^*
• Amirah#490Variant of Amira, meaning “princess”^*

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 Muhammed’s. Rank is US 2025.