Mohammad
Mohammad was given to 529 boys in 2025, #562 among boys’ names; 17,193 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,800 Americans named Mohammad and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 9 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mohammad by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mohammad mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mohammad 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 Mohammad?
#562 among boys’ names, 2025
Mohammad fell from #545 in 2015 to #562 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 0.27 to 0.31 per 1,000.
538 babies in 2022, the peak
Mohammad peaked in 2022, when 538 boys were given it, #556 among boys’ names. The 529 births of 2025 are 98% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 529 | #562 | 0.31 |
| 2024 | 475 | #601 | 0.28 |
| 2023 | 511 | #574 | 0.30 |
| 2022 | 538 | #556 | 0.31 |
| 2021 | 409 | #664 | 0.23 |
| 2020 | 397 | #664 | 0.23 |
| 2019 | 488 | #572 | 0.27 |
| 2018 | 444 | #608 | 0.24 |
| 2017 | 480 | #567 | 0.26 |
| 2016 | 451 | #597 | 0.24 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 524 | #545 | 0.27 |
| 2014 | 468 | #590 | 0.24 |
| 2013 | 447 | #577 | 0.24 |
| 2012 | 424 | #597 | 0.22 |
| 2011 | 398 | #610 | 0.21 |
| 2010 | 370 | #652 | 0.19 |
| 2009 | 420 | #610 | 0.21 |
| 2008 | 348 | #689 | 0.17 |
| 2007 | 388 | #628 | 0.19 |
| 2006 | 413 | #596 | 0.20 |
| 2005 | 345 | #635 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 340 | #623 | 0.17 |
| 2003 | 395 | #566 | 0.20 |
| 2002 | 423 | #532 | 0.22 |
| 2001 | 470 | #489 | 0.24 |
| 2000 | 510 | #465 | 0.26 |
| 1999 | 426 | #504 | 0.22 |
| 1998 | 450 | #486 | 0.24 |
| 1997 | 398 | #512 | 0.21 |
| 1996 | 398 | #511 | 0.21 |
| 1995 | 350 | #545 | 0.18 |
| 1994 | 318 | #580 | 0.16 |
| 1993 | 338 | #550 | 0.17 |
| 1992 | 311 | #576 | 0.16 |
| 1991 | 326 | #562 | 0.16 |
| 1990 | 279 | #599 | 0.14 |
| 1989 | 253 | #621 | 0.13 |
| 1988 | 239 | #615 | 0.12 |
| 1987 | 219 | #613 | 0.12 |
| 1986 | 176 | #680 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 158 | #700 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 158 | #695 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 145 | #718 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 131 | #770 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 119 | #807 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 112 | #834 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 110 | #832 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 75 | #1,001 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 52 | #1,235 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 53 | #1,187 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 29 | #1,738 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 37 | #1,434 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 27 | #1,726 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 20 | #2,057 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 20 | #2,095 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 16 | #2,373 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,818 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,684 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,356 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,262 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,503 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mohammad a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mohammad has been given almost only to boys: 10 girls in 61 years of records.
Girls and boys named Mohammad: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mohammad, and how old are they?
16,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 17,193 Americans ever recorded as Mohammad. The median Mohammad alive today is 19 years old; half are between 9 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 51,757 people named Mohammad (89 women and girls, 51,668 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,167 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.7 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 531 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,740 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,410 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,120 |
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 Mohammad born?
The states with the most babies named Mohammad are California, New York and Texas, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 83 | #398 | 1.1× |
| New York | 70 | #271 | 2.8× |
| Texas | 51 | #607 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 38 | #288 | 2.3× |
| Virginia | 27 | #313 | 2.1× |
| Michigan | 27 | #337 | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 24 | #448 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 22 | #372 | 1.9× |
| Florida | 22 | #718 | 0.8× |
| Washington | 20 | #376 | 0.4× |
Where Mohammad is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mohammad is most over-represented in New York: since 1964 it was given 2.8 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 Mohammad 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 56,985 babies since 1880, Mohammad is the second most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 529 of their 1,671 babies (32%), again the second 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 Mohammad
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 Mohammad and names like it
- Compare Mohammad and MohamedBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMohammad peaked in 2022.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mohammad since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Mohammad.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mohammad alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.