Mohammed

23,378 people in the United States were counted with the surname Mohammed in the 2020 census, making it the 1,491st most common in the country. That is about one person in 12,800.

By the numbers

People: 23,378
Rank: 1,491st
How common: 1 in 12,800
Per 100,000: 7.8

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Mohammed described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 35.7%
Black, not Hispanic 34.5%
White, not Hispanic 20.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Mohammed

Amina J. Mohammed (born 1961)Nigerian-British diplomat and Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
Yanar Mohammed (1960–2026)Iraqi feminist and women's rights activist
Nazr Mohammed (born 1977)American basketball player
Mohammed Siraj (born 1994)Indian cricketer
Mohammed, Crown Prince of Libya (born 1962)Libya King
Bilal Mohammed (born 1986)Qatari footballer
Nick Mohammed (born 1980)British actor
Karim Mohammed (born 1960)Iraqi footballer

People named Mohammed with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Mohammed

Also a first name

Mohammed has been given to 16,225 American babies as a first name since 1922, peaking in 2014. See it as a given name.

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.