Mohammed

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Mohamed in EG Egypt, MA Morocco, TZ Tanzania and 3 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 18 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◐

Mohammed is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name857K records spelled Mohammed3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Morocco, Ethiopia

  Also written Moẖammed, Moḥammed

• French given name318K records spelled Mohammed66 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, United States

  Languages: French, Catalan, Italian

  Also written Mohàmmed, Mohàmméd, Mohamméd, Mõhåmmëd, Môhammed

• Spanish given name246K records spelled Mohammed84 spellings in the group

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

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Möhämmëd, Mohàmméd, Mohặmmếd, Mohàmmed, Möhâmmêd

• Indonesian given name159K records spelled Mohammed17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Nigeria, Malaysia, Indonesia

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

  Also written Móhämmêd, Môhãmmed, Mõhämmêd, Mõhämmęd, Mõhãmmêd

• Turkish given name85K records spelled Mohammed27 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Iraq, Syria, India

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek

  Also written Mőhãmmed, Môhāmmęd, Möhâmměd, Mohàmméd, Mohâmmed

• Finnish given name25K records spelled Mohammed15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, India, Nigeria, United Kingdom

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Mõhãmméd, Möhãmmêd, Môhámméd, Möhammëd, Mõhämmèd

74 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●

Mohammed 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. This is the traditional English-language spelling. It is also common as a name adopted by Black Americans on conversion to Islam.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In English, A male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Muhammad.

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

• In Arabic, Confident

  as a name·The book of African names

• In French, Arabic Muḥammad, ‘praised, commendable’

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In English, Arabic for "praised one".

  as a name·Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

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) — 114 years between 1897–2017. 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. 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)
• Mohamed Salahb. 1992EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian 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 · 1,015 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mohammed?

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

In which country does Mohammed have the most bearers?

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

How common is Mohammed compared with other names?

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

Is Mohammed a male or female name?

Mohammed 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 Mohammed mean?

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