Mohamad
Mohamad was given to 73 boys in 2025, #2,049 among boys’ names; 3,662 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,570 Americans named Mohamad and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 13 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mohamad by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mohamad mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mohamad is “a male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Muhammad.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mohamad?
#2,049 among boys’ names, 2025
Mohamad fell from #1,866 in 2015 to #2,049 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 41.2 to 42.7 per million.
126 babies in 1999, the peak
Mohamad peaked in 1999, when 126 boys were given it, #1,074 among boys’ names. The 73 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 73 | #2,049 | 42.7 |
| 2024 | 79 | #1,980 | 45.9 |
| 2023 | 84 | #1,887 | 49.1 |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,370 | 34.4 |
| 2021 | 68 | #2,124 | 38.9 |
| 2020 | 68 | #2,087 | 39.4 |
| 2019 | 73 | #2,011 | 40.7 |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,158 | 35.8 |
| 2017 | 77 | #1,891 | 41.6 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,157 | 33.7 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 79 | #1,866 | 41.2 |
| 2014 | 85 | #1,776 | 44.3 |
| 2013 | 78 | #1,842 | 41.2 |
| 2012 | 101 | #1,571 | 53.2 |
| 2011 | 92 | #1,651 | 48.4 |
| 2010 | 86 | #1,756 | 44.8 |
| 2009 | 76 | #1,906 | 38.3 |
| 2008 | 91 | #1,686 | 44.6 |
| 2007 | 89 | #1,708 | 42.9 |
| 2006 | 80 | #1,754 | 38.9 |
| 2005 | 92 | #1,540 | 46.1 |
| 2004 | 94 | #1,463 | 47.4 |
| 2003 | 87 | #1,492 | 44.0 |
| 2002 | 88 | #1,453 | 45.3 |
| 2001 | 125 | #1,125 | 64.3 |
| 2000 | 99 | #1,303 | 50.4 |
| 1999 | 126 | #1,074 | 65.6 |
| 1998 | 92 | #1,296 | 48.1 |
| 1997 | 125 | #1,021 | 66.3 |
| 1996 | 112 | #1,084 | 59.1 |
| 1995 | 94 | #1,194 | 49.4 |
| 1994 | 91 | #1,205 | 47.1 |
| 1993 | 85 | #1,231 | 43.3 |
| 1992 | 77 | #1,287 | 38.5 |
| 1991 | 93 | #1,135 | 46.0 |
| 1990 | 83 | #1,193 | 40.4 |
| 1989 | 68 | #1,329 | 34.0 |
| 1988 | 49 | #1,515 | 25.6 |
| 1987 | 52 | #1,417 | 27.9 |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,311 | 30.4 |
| 1985 | 46 | #1,467 | 24.9 |
| 1984 | 40 | #1,549 | 22.2 |
| 1983 | 27 | #1,995 | 15.1 |
| 1982 | 32 | #1,803 | 17.6 |
| 1981 | 40 | #1,537 | 22.3 |
| 1980 | 26 | #2,094 | 14.6 |
| 1979 | 30 | #1,852 | 17.4 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,446 | 11.6 |
| 1977 | 15 | #2,866 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 13 | #3,038 | 8.3 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,833 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,738 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mohamad a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mohamad has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mohamad: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mohamad, and how old are they?
3,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,662 Americans ever recorded as Mohamad. The median Mohamad alive today is 23 years old; half are between 13 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 8,266 people named Mohamad (18 women and girls, 8,248 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,184 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 111 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 997 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,520 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 946 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Mohamad born?
The states with the most babies named Mohamad are Michigan, Texas and California, with 79% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 21 | #417 | 7.0× |
| Texas | 10 | #1,724 | 0.7× |
| California | 6 | #2,380 | 0.9× |
| New York | 5 | #1,955 | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,134 | 0.9× |
Where Mohamad is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mohamad is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1974 it was given 7.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Mohamad with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 57,961 babies since 1880, Mohamad is the fourth most given (6.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 73 of their 1,757 babies (4.2%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Mohamad
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 Mohamad and names like it
- Compare Mohamad and MohamedBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMohamad peaked in 1999.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mohamad since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Mohamad.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mohamad alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.