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Mahamed

#7,482 in 2025Boys' name

Praised, commendable, through Muhammad

Mahamed has been given to 415 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #7,482 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Mahamed, 2025

1 in 301,000

Mahamed over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mahamed: meaning, origin, and history

Praised, commendable, through Muhammad

Arabic

What Mahamed means

Mahamed belongs to the name family reached through Mahamed → Muhammad. Its meaning is “praised, commendable”.

Origin, language, and formation

Mahamed is used in Norwegian Bokmål. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Muhammad.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Norwegian Bokmål, Mahamed is pronounced /maˈhaməd/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 415 boys were recorded with the name Mahamed between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2004; its best national rank was #4,082 in 2004.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,860 in 2020 to #7,482 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,561 in 2015 to #7,482 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mahamed?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,482
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mahamed sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mahamed. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mahameds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mahamed was born before 2010 — so the typical Mahamed is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
415
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.3% of all recorded uses (163).

Is Mahamed rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+2,047
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+378
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−921
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.85×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2004 (22)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,082
2004

Spellings of Mahamed

Mahamed is not the most common spelling — Mohamed is, with 31.0% against Mahamed's 0.66%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Mahamed is used

Across 1910–2025, Mahamed was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 172,363 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 50,000
  2. 2Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Mahamed has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mahamed around the world

Where Mahamed ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    1981–2024
    #4,798
    in 2024
  • Norway
    1880–2018
    #471
    in 2018
  • Canada
    1994–2020
    #2,945
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Mahamed by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,482
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 378
Best rank ever
#4,082
2004
Peak year
2004
22 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
415
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Mahamed

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MahmoodMahkaiMahariMahmudMahamadouMuhamedMahmoudMahziMahadevMahadMahlikMahkiMaherMaheshMaheerMahonriMahkariMahamudMouhamedMahirMahanHamedMahidMahdi

Sibling names for Mahamed

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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