Mohammed
About 16,225 American babies have been named Mohammed since 1922, most of them around 2014. In 2025 it ranked 595th. About 16,000 Mohammeds are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Mohammed
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 16,225
- Estimated living today
- 16,000
- Median age today
- 17
- Peak year
- 2014
- Best rank
- 498th
- Rank in 2025
- 595th
- First recorded
- 1922
How old the living Mohammeds are
born that year still alive today
Of the 16,225 babies given the name since 1922, about 16,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 8,000 of them are children and 50 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Arabic
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Mohammeds
- Mohammed VI of Morocco (born 1963)king of Morocco since 1999
- Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (born 1985)Saudi crown prince
- Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (born 1949)ruler of Dubai
- Mohammed Zahir Shah (1914–2007)King of Afghanistan
- Mohammed Omar (1960–2013)Afghan cleric who founded the Taliban
- Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan (born 1961)President of the United Arab Emirates
- Mohammed V of Morocco (1909–1961)King of Morocco
- Mohammed Amin al-Husseini (1895–1974)Palestinian Arab nationalist
People named Mohammed with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Mohammed is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mohammed is most concentrated in New York (2.9×), Illinois (2.3×), Michigan (2.2×), New Jersey (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2014
The most popular boys’ names the year Mohammed peaked:
Mohammed elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Mohammed | 76,028 | 16th |
| France boys | Mohammed | 12,050 | 161st |
| Sweden boys | Mohammed | 6,639 | 21st |
| Belgium boys | Mohammed | 3,240 | 47th |
| Norway boys | Mohammed | 3,230 | 114th |
| Scotland boys | Mohammed | 2,536 | 86th |
| Italy boys | Mohammed | 2,134 | — |
| Ireland boys | Mohammed | 387 | 229th |
| Switzerland boys | Mohammed | 257 | 396th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Mohammed | 41 | 255th |
| Poland boys | Mohammed | 29 birth registrations | 402nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Mohammed: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Mohammed | 196 | 0.016% | 334th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Mohammed | 59 | 0.014% | 293rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Mohammed | 2 | 0.003% | 182nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Mohammed is most concentrated in Bern, where 0.02% of children were given it – 40 of them.
Mohammed: rank by region
In 2025, Mohammed was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Mohammed | 53 | 89 |
| Wallonia | Mohammed | 191 | 15 |
| Brussels | Mohammed | 21 | 30 |
In 2024, Mohammed was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Mohammed | 7 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Mohammed appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (21st), Province of Antwerp (22nd), Province of Limburg (64th), Province of West Flanders (75th), Province of East Flanders (82nd), Province of Liège (106th) and Province of Flemish Brabant (132nd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Mohammed by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 253 | 75th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Mohammed among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Mohammed | 5,951 | 7,061 |
| Finland boys | Mohammed | 866 | 1,613 |
| Finland girls | Mohammed | — | 524 |
| the Netherlands girls | Mohammed | — | 124 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Mohammed lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 37,933 men called Mohammed were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murcia | Mohammed | 5,782 | 7.274 | 26 |
| Almería | Mohammed | 1,969 | 5.006 | 36 |
| Lleida | Mohammed | 1,033 | 4.387 | 44 |
| Ceuta | Mohammed | 158 | 3.749 | 54 |
| Tarragona | Mohammed | 1,578 | 3.600 | 58 |
| Cáceres | Mohammed | 625 | 3.251 | 71 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Mohammed against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.