Mohamed

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Mohammed in BD Bangladesh, IN India, DZ Algeria and 6 more, Mohammad in US United States, LB Lebanon, IR Iran and 1 more, Muhammad in PK Pakistan, AU Australia, PS Palestine and Muhammed in TR Türkiye, SY Syria.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Mohamed is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name1.3M records spelled Mohamed67 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Belgium, Morocco, United States

  Languages: French, Italian

  Also written Mohàméd, Mohàmed, Mohaméd, Mohàmèd, Môhâmêd

• Hindi given name265K records spelled Mohamed73 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Morocco

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Mòhämêd, Mohàmed, Môhâmed, Mohàméd, Mõhãmĕd

• a separate given name177K records spelled Mohamed2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Morocco, United States, India, Ethiopia

  Also written Moḥamed

• Turkish given name53K records spelled Mohamed90 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Morocco, United States

  Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani

  Also written Mohàméd, Mö, Mohâmëď, Móhamèd, Möhâméd

• Finnish given name41K records spelled Mohamed11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, United States, Morocco, United Kingdom

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Môhamed, Mohamed Ali, Móhàmed, Môhàméd, Möhämëd

85 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Mohamed is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Muslim; variant of Muhammad. See also Mohammed.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In French, synonym of Mahomet (“Muhammad (prophet)”)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, A male given name from Arabic, variant of Muhammad.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Arabic, Muhammad; praised one

  as a name·African Muslim Names

• In Malay, alternative form of Muhammad

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 91 years between 1916–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Al-Battanib. 858TRnot in their usual nameIslamic astronomer and mathematician (died 929)
• Al-Birunib. 973AFnot in their usual name11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
• Bahadur Shah Zafarb. 1775INnot in their usual name18th and last Mughal Emperor from 1837 to 1857
• Idris I of Libyab. 1889LYnot in their usual nameKing of Libya from 1951 to 1969
• Mohammad Reza Pahlavib. 1919IRnot in their usual nameShah of Iran from 1941 to 1979
• Muḥammad Bāqir aṣ-Ṣadrb. 1935IQnot in their usual nameIraqi Shia cleric, philosopher, and the ideological founder of the Islamic Dawa Party (1935-1980)(55 yrs)
• Mohamed ElBaradeib. 1942EGEgyptian law scholar and diplomat, 4th Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
• Rashad al-Alimib. 1954YEnot in their usual nameChairman of the Presidential Leadership Council of Yemen since 2022
• Mohamed Ould Ghazouanib. 1956MRMauritanian retired general and politician; President of Mauritania (2019–present)
• Mohamed Salahb. 1992EGEgyptian association football player (born 1992)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,230 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mohamed?

We estimate roughly 456 thousand people bear Mohamed (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.

In which country does Mohamed have the most bearers?

Mohamed is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled mohammed.

How common is Mohamed compared with other names?

In Bangladesh, Mohamed is the most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.

Is Mohamed a male or female name?

Mohamed is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Mohamed mean?

Recorded meaning: From the Muslim male personal name Muhammad, based on Arabic muhammad ‘praiseworthy’.