Mohamed
Mohamed was given to 568 boys in 2025, #527 among boys’ names; 19,350 Americans have been recorded with it since 1943 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 19,000 Americans named Mohamed and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mohamed by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mohamed mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mohamed is “a male given name from Arabic, variant of Muhammad.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mohamed?
#527 among boys’ names, 2025
Mohamed fell from #452 in 2015 to #527 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.35 to 0.33 per 1,000.
712 babies in 2014, the peak
Mohamed peaked in 2014, when 712 boys were given it, #428 among boys’ names. The 568 births of 2025 are 80% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 568 | #527 | 0.33 |
| 2024 | 541 | #551 | 0.31 |
| 2023 | 543 | #543 | 0.32 |
| 2022 | 524 | #565 | 0.30 |
| 2021 | 552 | #533 | 0.32 |
| 2020 | 508 | #556 | 0.29 |
| 2019 | 614 | #477 | 0.34 |
| 2018 | 654 | #456 | 0.36 |
| 2017 | 663 | #456 | 0.36 |
| 2016 | 647 | #473 | 0.34 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 671 | #452 | 0.35 |
| 2014 | 712 | #428 | 0.37 |
| 2013 | 645 | #446 | 0.34 |
| 2012 | 626 | #441 | 0.33 |
| 2011 | 635 | #429 | 0.33 |
| 2010 | 605 | #442 | 0.32 |
| 2009 | 649 | #433 | 0.33 |
| 2008 | 535 | #508 | 0.26 |
| 2007 | 590 | #463 | 0.28 |
| 2006 | 573 | #469 | 0.28 |
| 2005 | 524 | #478 | 0.26 |
| 2004 | 484 | #506 | 0.24 |
| 2003 | 480 | #507 | 0.24 |
| 2002 | 453 | #503 | 0.23 |
| 2001 | 541 | #449 | 0.28 |
| 2000 | 498 | #472 | 0.25 |
| 1999 | 432 | #500 | 0.22 |
| 1998 | 430 | #501 | 0.22 |
| 1997 | 346 | #556 | 0.18 |
| 1996 | 285 | #614 | 0.15 |
| 1995 | 282 | #611 | 0.15 |
| 1994 | 237 | #670 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 215 | #706 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 200 | #731 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 202 | #710 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 193 | #734 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 140 | #848 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 116 | #887 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 122 | #848 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 132 | #791 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 116 | #837 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 87 | #947 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 90 | #935 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 103 | #881 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 91 | #944 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 73 | #1,061 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 71 | #1,052 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 58 | #1,174 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 57 | #1,171 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 33 | #1,635 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 30 | #1,688 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 17 | #2,426 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 14 | #2,673 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 14 | #2,620 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 18 | #2,250 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,562 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,996 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,991 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 17 | #1,952 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,800 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,802 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,204 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,239 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,985 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 9 | #3,035 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,248 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,325 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,285 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,443 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mohamed a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mohamed has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mohamed: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mohamed, and how old are they?
19,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 19,350 Americans ever recorded as Mohamed. The median Mohamed alive today is 16 years old; half are between 9 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 46,254 people named Mohamed (105 women and girls, 46,149 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15,989 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 41 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 394 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,490 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,270 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,780 |
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 Mohamed born?
The states with the most babies named Mohamed are New York, Minnesota and Michigan, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 104 | #193 | 3.1× |
| Minnesota | 69 | #92 | 4.6× |
| Michigan | 42 | #245 | 2.8× |
| Ohio | 42 | #294 | 1.6× |
| California | 32 | #792 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 31 | #361 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 28 | #908 | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 22 | #371 | 1.7× |
| Virginia | 21 | #386 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 16 | #644 | 0.7× |
Where Mohamed is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mohamed is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1943 it was given 4.6 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 Mohamed 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, Mohamed is the most given (33% of them). In 2025 it was given to 568 of their 1,757 babies (32%), again the 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 Mohamed
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1940-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Maximilian | 18,940 | |
| Abdallah | 1,655 | |
| Immanuel | 6,146 | |
| Kayne | 2,405 | |
| Aleksander | 4,166 | |
| Nicolai | 1,865 |
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 Mohamed and names like it
- Compare Mohamed and MohammadBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMohamed peaked in 2014.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mohamed since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Mohamed.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mohamed alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.