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Mourad

#6,688 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Murad

Mourad has been given to 251 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #6,688 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Mourad, 2025

1 in 255,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mourad: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Murad

Arabic

What Mourad means

Mourad is a alternate transcription of Murad.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Mourad → Murad. The family’s meaning is “wish, desire, wanted”, recorded in the naming reference for Murad.

Origin, language, and formation

Mourad is used in French. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Murad and Murat.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Mourad is pronounced /mu.ʁad/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 251 boys were recorded with the name Mourad between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2018; its best national rank was #4,442 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,166 in 2020 to #6,688 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,200 in 2015 to #6,688 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.

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How common is Mourad?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,688
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mourad 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mourad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mourads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mourad was born before 2018 — so the typical Mourad is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
49.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
251
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Choose a decade

2010s — 49.4% of all recorded uses (124).

Is Mourad 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
−2,171
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,522
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−488
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.93×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.5%
Peak was 2018 (23)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,442
2018

Spellings of Mourad

Mourad is not the most common spelling — Conrad is, with 85.7% against Mourad's 0.55%.

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 Mourad is used

Across 1910–2025, Mourad was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,314,763 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New 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. Mourad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mourad around the world

Where Mourad 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
    1997–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    1943–2025
    #1,222
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023

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

Mourad by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,688
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,522
Best rank ever
#4,442
2018
Peak year
2018
23 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
251
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Mourad

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

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Sibling names for Mourad

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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