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Muhammed

#2,159 in 2025Boys' name

Praised, commendable, laudable, through Muhammad

Muhammed has been given to 2,600 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #2,159 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 106 recorded.

Babies named Muhammed, 2025

1 in 49,500

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Muhammed: meaning, origin, and history

Praised, commendable, laudable, through Muhammad

Arabic

What Muhammed means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Muhammed is used in English, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Muhammad.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Norwegian Bokmål, Muhammed is pronounced /muˈhamːəd/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,600 boys were recorded with the name Muhammed between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 106 in 2014; its best national rank was #1,479 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,958 in 2020 to #2,159 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,700 in 2015 to #2,159 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 Muhammed?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 49,500
67 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 25,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,159
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
34,298 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Muhammed 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 34,298 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Muhammed. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Muhammeds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Muhammed was born before 2009 — so the typical Muhammed is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,600
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 31.3% of all recorded uses (813).

Is Muhammed 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
−501
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−201
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−459
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.73×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.2%
Peak was 2014 (106)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,479
2000

Spellings of Muhammed

Muhammed is not the most common spelling — Muhammad is, with 27.8% against Muhammed's 3.3%.

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 Muhammed is used

Across 2016–2025, Muhammed was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 6,250 boys, against 1 in 21,963 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

116 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 6,250
  2. 2Washington1 in 7,143
  3. 3Ohio1 in 16,667
  4. 4Georgia1 in 20,000
  5. 5Minnesota1 in 20,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 33,333
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 33,333
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 33,333

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.

Muhammed around the world

Where Muhammed 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
    #129
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1978–2025
    #400
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2019–2019
    #418
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    2000–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • France
    1976–2025
    #649
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #308
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,011
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1987–2012
    #514
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, 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, NISRA 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 Muhammed

People whose public names include Muhammed, 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.

Muhammed in other languages

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

MehmedMohamadMohamedMuhamedMohammadMuhammadM'hamedMaomettoMahometus

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

Muhammed by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,159
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 201
Best rank ever
#1,479
2000
Peak year
2014
106 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,600
Count in 2025
67

Names similar to Muhammed

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

MuhamedMuhammadMouhamedMuhamadMuhsinMohammedMuhannadMuhammadaliMahamedMohamedHamedMuhayminMuhanadAhmedMuhammadaminMuhammadjonMuhammadyusufMehmedMuhammadumarMuhabMuhammadmusaMohmedMuhtasimMuhaimin

Names with a curve like Muhammed

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

YehoshuaKainoaHusseinKlaytonKekoaMahdiAdnanKeoniAjAharonKhaledArion

Sibling names for Muhammed

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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