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Mehmed

#6,043 in 2025Boys' name

To praise, commend, laud, through محمد

Mehmed has been given to 83 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #6,043 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Mehmed, 2025

1 in 221,000

Mehmed over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mehmed: meaning, origin, and history

To praise, commend, laud, through محمد

Turkish and Arabic

What Mehmed means

Mehmed belongs to the name family reached through Mehmed → محمد → مُحَمَّد. Its meaning is “to praise, commend, laud”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Ottoman Turkish محمد (Mehmed, Mehmet), from Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad). Doublet of Muhammad.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Mehmed (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Mehmed is used in English, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish. Its origins include Turkish and Arabic.

Mehmed comes through Ottoman Turkish محمد and Arabic مُحَمَّد.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Muhammad, Mehmet, Muhamed, محمد and مُحَمَّد.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Mehmed is pronounced /měhmed/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 83 boys were recorded with the name Mehmed between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2025; its best national rank was #6,043 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,876 in 2020 to #6,043 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,624 in 2015 to #6,043 in 2025.

How common is Mehmed?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,043
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mehmed 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mehmed. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mehmeds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mehmed was born before 2020 — so the typical Mehmed is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
55.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
83
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 55.4% of all recorded uses (46).

Is Mehmed 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,833
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,581
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (15)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
49.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,043
2025

Spellings of Mehmed

Mehmed is not the most common spelling — Mohamed is, with 49.7% against Mehmed's 0.21%.

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 Mehmed is used

Across 1910–2025, Mehmed was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Mehmed has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mehmed around the world

Where Mehmed 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
    2012–2025
    #1,613
    in 2025
  • France
    2005–2025
    #4,149
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1972–2003
    #588
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mehmed by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,043
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,833
Best rank ever
#6,043
2025
Peak year
2025
15 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
83
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Mehmed

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

MehrabMehtaabMehkaiMehtabMeharMehranMehmetMohmedAhamedMehdiMehulMahamedMehkiMehaanHamedMeherMuhamedMehrajMehanMohmmedAmedMehrdadMehraabHammed

Sibling names for Mehmed

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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