Muhammad

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, Mohammad in US United States, LB Lebanon, IR Iran and 1 more 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 13 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◐

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

• Indonesian given name2.7M records spelled Muhammad25 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Nigeria

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written 'Muhammad, Muḥammad, Muhämmäd, Mühämmäd, Muhâmmâd

• a separate given name550K records spelled Muhammad19 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Pakistan, India, United States, Malaysia

  Also written Muḥammad, Muḣammad, Muh̜ammad, Muḩammad, Mu̇ḣămmăd

• Spanish given name126K records spelled Muhammad62 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, United States, Pakistan, Malaysia

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

  Also written Mahoma, Muḥammad, Maome, Maomé, Maometto

• French given name60K records spelled Muhammad15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Malaysia, United States

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Muḥammad, Mühãmmãd, Mühammad, Muhammâd, Múhãmmád

• Sinhala given name27K records spelled Muhammad4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Pakistan, India, Nigeria, Malaysia

  Also written 'Muhammad, Muḥammad

• Finnish given name14K records spelled Muhammad7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, Pakistan, Nigeria, Malaysia

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Muḥammad, Mùhâmmåd, Mühämmäd, Mûhämmäd

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●

Muhammad 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.

• In Arabic, ‘praised’; name of the Prophet of Islam, also used widely as a given name.

  as a name·African Muslim Names

• In Arabic, Islamic name adopted by Webb after conversion; also the Prophet Muhammad's name.

  as a name·African Muslim Names

• In Arabic, The Prophet Muhammad; used with many Tanzanian spellings.

  as a name·African Muslim Names

• In Arabic, OCR unclear; likely a feminine Arabic name variant

  as a name·African Muslim Names

• In Arabic, Qur'anic sura title; the Prophet Muhammad.

  as a name·African Muslim 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) — 96 years between 1899–2017. 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. 1935IQIraqi 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 · 1,047 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Muhammad?

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

In which country does Muhammad have the most bearers?

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

How common is Muhammad compared with other names?

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

Is Muhammad a male or female name?

Muhammad 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 Muhammad mean?

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