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Mujahid

#13,283 in 2025Boys' name

To strive in the cause of God

Mujahid has been given to 325 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #13,283 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Mujahid, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mujahid: meaning, origin, and history

To strive in the cause of God

Arabic

What Mujahid means

Mujahid means “to strive in the cause of God”, associated with jāhada.

Origin, language, and formation

Mujahid is used in Maranao and Tausug. Its origins include Arabic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tausug, Mujahid is pronounced /mud͡ʒahid/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 325 boys were recorded with the name Mujahid between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1997; its best national rank was #3,229 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,888 in 2020 to #13,283 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 Mujahid?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,283
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mujahid 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mujahid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mujahids were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mujahid was born before 2002 — so the typical Mujahid is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
325
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2000s — 31.1% of all recorded uses (101).

Is Mujahid 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
−2,710
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,395
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
21.7%
Peak was 1997 (23)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,229
1997

Where Mujahid is used

Across 1910–2025, Mujahid was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 665,543 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in —
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 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. Mujahid has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mujahid around the world

Where Mujahid 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
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mujahid by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,283
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,395
Best rank ever
#3,229
1997
Peak year
1997
23 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
325
Count in 2025
5

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

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