Muhammed
About 2,600 American babies have been named Muhammed since 1970, most of them around 2014. In 2025 it ranked 2,145th. About 2,600 Muhammeds are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Muhammed
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,600
- Estimated living today
- 2,600
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2014
- Best rank
- 1,514th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,145th
- First recorded
- 1970
How old the living Muhammeds are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,600 babies given the name since 1970, about 2,600 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,400 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 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 Muhammeds
- Muhammed Faris Al-Aqidi (1951–2024)Syrian cosmonaut
- Muhammed VI, Sultan of Granada (1332–1362)Sultan of Granada
- Muhammed Anas (born 1994)Indian sprinter
- Muhammed Lawal (born 1981)American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
- Muhammed IX (1384–1453)Sultan of Granada
- Muhammed XI, Sultan of Granada (1428–1454)Sultan of Granada
- Muhammed VII, Sultan of Granada (1377–1408)Sultan of Grenada
- Muhammed VIII, Sultan of Granada (1411–1431)sultan of Grenada
People named Muhammed with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Muhammed is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Muhammed is most concentrated in New York (5.5×), Washington (3.9×), Georgia (2.6×), Maryland (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2014
The most popular boys’ names the year Muhammed peaked:
Muhammed elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Muhammed | 11,912 | 113th |
| France boys | Muhammed | 3,155 | 400th |
| Belgium boys | Muhammed | 1,639 | 120th |
| Switzerland boys | Muhammed | 481 | 292nd |
| Norway boys | Muhammed | 464 | 227th |
| Scotland boys | Muhammed | 303 | 232nd |
| Ireland boys | Muhammed | 62 | 386th |
| Poland boys | Muhammed | 15 birth registrations | 567th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Muhammed | 3 | 418th |
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.
Muhammed: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Muhammed | 431 | 0.035% | 215th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Muhammed | 45 | 0.010% | 344th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Muhammed | 5 | 0.008% | 194th |
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, Muhammed is most concentrated in Basel-Stadt, where 0.15% of children were given it – 55 of them.
Muhammed: rank by region
In 2025, Muhammed was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Muhammed | 201 | 30 |
| Wallonia | Muhammed | 317 | 8 |
In 2022, Muhammed was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Muhammed | 339 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Muhammed appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (76th), Province of Antwerp (181st) and Province of East Flanders (198th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – 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.
Muhammed by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 386 | 48th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Muhammed 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 | Muhammed | 2,593 | 3,014 |
| Finland boys | Muhammed | 224 | 283 |
| Finland girls | Muhammed | — | 15 |
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 Muhammed lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 494 men called Muhammed 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Muhammed | 127 | 0.305 | 331 |
| Huesca | Muhammed | 20 | 0.171 | 450 |
| Lleida | Muhammed | 33 | 0.140 | 610 |
| Ceuta | Muhammed | 5 | 0.119 | 636 |
| Zaragoza | Muhammed | 29 | 0.059 | 979 |
| AlmerÃa | Muhammed | 18 | 0.046 | 1,294 |
Listed in 14 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 38 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Muhammed against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.