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Muhamed vs Muhsin

American parents have registered 653 Muhsins since 1880, against 618 Muhameds. Muhsin is still ahead, with 42 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Muhamed against Muhsin, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Muhamed Muhsin

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 39 years in which either name was published, Muhamed for 24 years and Muhsin for 15 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Muhamed Muhsin
Total US births 618653
Most in one year 2844
Babies in 2025 1042
Estimated living today 610650
Median age today 168
Peak year 20162017
Best rank 3,776th boys2,755th boys
Rank in 2025 7,679th2,941st
First recorded 19771994
Girls / boys 0 / 6180 / 653

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 Muhameds alive today are over 16; half the Muhsins are over 8. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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.

Country Muhamed Muhsin
England and Wales 295339
France 51585

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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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Muhamed and Muhsin.