Muharem

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Мухарем in MK North Macedonia.

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 17 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◐

Muharem is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Turkish given name3.6K records spelled Muharem4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Kosovo, Sweden

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

  Also written Müharem

35 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●

Muharem is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Serbo-Croatian, 1° prvi mjesec islamske godine, 2° muslimansko lično ime (Bosna)

  as a word·Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

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●

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 134 years between 1871–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Мухарем Сербезовскиb. 1950MKnot in their usual namesinger-songwriter
• Muharem HusićSIresearcher

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 · 210 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Muharem?

We estimate roughly 2.0 thousand people bear Muharem (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Muharem have the most bearers?

Muharem is most frequently recorded in Kosovo, where it is most often spelled muharem.

How common is Muharem compared with other names?

In Kosovo, Muharem is the 28th most common given name of 6,371 given names recorded there.

Is Muharem a male or female name?

Muharem 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 Muharem mean?

Recorded meaning: Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar