Mohamed vs Mohammed

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Mohamed Mohammed

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 80 years in which either name was published, Mohammed for 48 years and Mohamed for 32 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

• 1922–1942 Mohammed ahead
• 1943 Mohamed ahead
• 1946–1960 Mohammed ahead
• 1961 Mohamed ahead
• 1962 Mohammed ahead
• 1963–1964 Mohamed ahead
• 1965–1966 Mohammed ahead
• 1967 Mohamed ahead
• 1968–1997 Mohammed ahead
• 1998 Mohamed ahead
• 1999 Mohammed ahead
• 2000–2025 Mohamed ahead

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Mohammeds alive today are over 17; half the Mohameds are over 15. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Mohamed Minnesota (5.1×), New York (2.7×), Michigan (2.6×)
• Mohammed New York (2.9×), Illinois (2.3×), Michigan (2.2×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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