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Muhamad

#8,040 in 2025Boys' name

Praised, commendable, laudable, through Muhammad

Muhamad has been given to 316 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #8,040 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Muhamad, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Muhamad: meaning, origin, and history

Praised, commendable, laudable, through Muhammad

Arabic

What Muhamad means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Muhamad is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Muhammad.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 316 boys were recorded with the name Muhamad between 1986 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 21 in 2014; its best national rank was #4,644 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,884 in 2020 to #8,040 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,952 in 2015 to #8,040 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 Muhamad?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,040
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Muhamad 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Muhamad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Muhamads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Muhamad was born before 2012 — so the typical Muhamad is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
316
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.2% of all recorded uses (108).

Is Muhamad 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
−923
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,156
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,088
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
47.6%
Peak was 2014 (21)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,644
2014

Spellings of Muhamad

Muhamad is not the most common spelling — Muhammad is, with 32.7% against Muhamad's 0.47%.

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.

Muhamad around the world

Where Muhamad 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
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2025–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • France
    2004–2025
    #6,071
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2016–2018
    #2,065
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    2004–2008
    #726
    in 2008

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

Muhamad by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,040
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,156
Best rank ever
#4,644
2014
Peak year
2014
21 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
316
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Muhamad

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

MuhamedMuhammadMuhsinMuhmmadMuhannadMuhanadHammadMouhamadMuhammedHamadMohmmadMuhayminMohamadSamadMuhammadaliImadJahmadMuhabMuhammadaminEmadMuhammadjonMuhammadyusufSarmadAmad

Sibling names for Muhamad

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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