Mohammad

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Mohammed in BD Bangladesh, IN India, DZ Algeria and 6 more, Mohamed in EG Egypt, MA Morocco, TZ Tanzania and 3 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 14 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◐

Mohammad is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name2.6M records spelled Mohammad8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Iran

  Also written Mo-Hammad, Moḥammad, Mohammaď, Mohaṃmad, Moẖammad

• Indonesian given name503K records spelled Mohammad21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, India, United States

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written 'Mohammad, Mohammad', Mòhãmmăď, Möhãmmād, Moham-Mad

• Turkish given name78K records spelled Mohammad8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Kazakh

  Also written Möhämmäd, Mõhämmád

• French given name76K records spelled Mohammad13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Môhammad, Móhàmmàd, Möhammäd, Möhämmäď, Mőhămmád

• Hebrew given name40K records spelled Mohammad39 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Israel, India, Iran, United States

  Also written מוחמד, מחמוד, מחמד, Mohammed, Muhammed

• Finnish given name17K records spelled Mohammad10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, India, United States, Iran

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Mõhàmmâd, Môhåmmäd, Móhammad, Mõhämmãd, Mõhãmmäd

• Polish given name11K records spelled Mohammad4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United States, United Kingdom, Iran

  Also written Mohāmmãd, Môhãmmäd, Mőhámmád

75 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●

Mohammad is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Swedish, Mohammad (m.fl. former) är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’den högt prisade’. Muhammed (ca 570–632) är islams grundare och profet.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• Muslim; variant of Muhammad.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

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) — 84 years between 1917–2015. 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
• Mohammad Mosaddeghb. 1882IRformer Prime Minister of Iran (1882–1967)
• Idris I of Libyab. 1889LYnot in their usual nameKing of Libya from 1951 to 1969
• Mohammad Reza Pahlavib. 1919IRShah 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. 1942EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian 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. 1956MRnot in their usual nameMauritanian retired general and politician; President of Mauritania (2019–present)

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 · 925 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mohammad?

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

In which country does Mohammad have the most bearers?

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

How common is Mohammad compared with other names?

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

Is Mohammad a male or female name?

Mohammad 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 Mohammad mean?

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