Mahamed
Mahamed was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,482 among boys’ names; 415 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mahamed by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mahamed mean?
Wiktionary, Norwegian Bokmål section
Mahamed is “a male given name from Arabic, variant of Muhammad”
/maˈhaməd/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Norwegian Bokmål section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mahamed?
#7,482 among boys’ names, 2025
Mahamed fell from #6,561 in 2015 to #7,482 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.8 to 6.4 per million.
22 babies in 2004, the peak
Mahamed peaked in 2004, when 22 boys were given it, #4,082 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,482 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,529 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,365 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,529 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,208 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,860 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,471 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,204 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,961 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,933 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #6,561 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,499 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,557 | 11.1 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,619 | 11.1 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,344 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,464 | 11.5 |
| 2009 | 19 | #5,038 | 9.6 |
| 2008 | 12 | #7,031 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,587 | 7.7 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,444 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,186 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 22 | #4,082 | 11.1 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,759 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,846 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,887 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,166 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,891 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,114 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,922 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,876 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,390 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mahamed a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mahamed has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mahamed: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mahamed, and how old are they?
An estimated 410 Americans named Mahamed and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 578 people named Mahamed (4 women and girls, 574 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 356 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 82,197 babies since 1880, Mahamed is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 3,221 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mahamed
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mahamed and names like it
- Compare Mahamed and MuhammadBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMahamed peaked in 2004.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mahamed since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Mahamed.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mahamed alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.