Mehmed
Mehmed was given to 15 boys in 2025, #6,043 among boys’ names; 83 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mehmed by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mehmed mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mehmed is “a male given name from Turkish, variant of Muhammad.”
From Ottoman Turkish محمد (Mehmed, Mehmet), from Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad). Doublet of Muhammad.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mehmed?
#6,043 among boys’ names, 2025
Mehmed rose from #11,624 in 2015 to #6,043 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 8.8 per million.
15 babies in 2025, the peak
Mehmed peaked in 2025, when 15 boys were given it, #6,043 among boys’ names. SSA did not list it in 2024.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #6,043 | 8.8 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,483 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,571 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,408 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,876 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,446 | 3.9 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,624 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,351 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,676 | 3.2 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,428 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | #11,711 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mehmed a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mehmed has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 11 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mehmed: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mehmed, and how old are they?
An estimated 82 Americans named Mehmed and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 457 people named Mehmed (3 women and girls, 454 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 39 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11.7 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Mehmed
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.