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Mohamad

#2,049 in 2025Boys' name

Praised, commendable, laudable, through Muhammad

Mohamad has been given to 3,662 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #2,049 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 126 recorded.

Babies named Mohamad, 2025

1 in 45,400

Mohamad over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mohamad: meaning, origin, and history

Praised, commendable, laudable, through Muhammad

Arabic

What Mohamad means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Mohamad is used in English and Norwegian Bokmål. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Muhammad.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Norwegian Bokmål, Mohamad is pronounced /muˈhamad/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,662 boys were recorded with the name Mohamad between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 126 in 1999; its best national rank was #1,021 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,087 in 2020 to #2,049 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,866 in 2015 to #2,049 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 Mohamad?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 45,400
73 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 23,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,049
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
31,479 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mohamad 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 31,479 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mohamad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mohamads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mohamad was born before 2003 — so the typical Mohamad is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
26.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,662
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 26.7% of all recorded uses (978).

Is Mohamad 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
−69
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+38
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−183
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.9%
Peak was 1999 (126)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,021
1997

Spellings of Mohamad

Mohamad is not the most common spelling — Muhammad is, with 27.3% against Mohamad's 4.5%.

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 Mohamad is used

Across 2016–2025, Mohamad was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 2,632 boys, against 1 in 19,128 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

138 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 2,632
  2. 2New York1 in 20,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 25,000
  4. 4California1 in 33,333
  5. 5Illinois1 in 50,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 50,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 50,000
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 100,000

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.

Mohamad around the world

Where Mohamad 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
    #771
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1983–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2002–2023
    #770
    in 2023
  • France
    1960–2025
    #874
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #370
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #536
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1976–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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

Notable people named Mohamad

People whose public names include Mohamad, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Mohamad in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Mohamad. Linked forms have their own page here.

MohamedMuhamedMohammadMuhammadM'hamedMaomettoMahometus

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Mohamad by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,049
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 38
Best rank ever
#1,021
1997
Peak year
1999
126 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,662
Count in 2025
73

Names similar to Mohamad

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

MohammadMohmmadMohamedMohammedMohamudMohsinMohsenMohmadMuhamadMuhammadMohanHammadSamadMohanadMohidAhmadHamadMohitEmadMohabMouhamadImadMohamedaminMohannad

Names with a curve like Mohamad

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mohamad, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MahmoudKalenJairusMykelDeanthonyJuancarlosJelaniAlexandreSyedJansenSkyeDemetri

Sibling names for Mohamad

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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