Mohammed
Mohammed was given to 486 boys in 2025, #595 among boys’ names; 16,225 Americans have been recorded with it since 1922 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,800 Americans named Mohammed and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 10 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mohammed by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mohammed mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mohammed is “a male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Muhammad.”
/mʊəˈhɑːməd/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mohammed?
#595 among boys’ names, 2025
Mohammed fell from #511 in 2015 to #595 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.29 to 0.28 per 1,000.
566 babies in 2014, the peak
Mohammed peaked in 2014, when 566 boys were given it, #499 among boys’ names. The 486 births of 2025 are 86% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 486 | #595 | 0.28 |
| 2024 | 481 | #596 | 0.28 |
| 2023 | 452 | #622 | 0.26 |
| 2022 | 368 | #717 | 0.21 |
| 2021 | 382 | #697 | 0.22 |
| 2020 | 418 | #643 | 0.24 |
| 2019 | 401 | #660 | 0.22 |
| 2018 | 425 | #628 | 0.23 |
| 2017 | 478 | #570 | 0.26 |
| 2016 | 461 | #592 | 0.24 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 561 | #511 | 0.29 |
| 2014 | 566 | #499 | 0.29 |
| 2013 | 471 | #559 | 0.25 |
| 2012 | 467 | #557 | 0.25 |
| 2011 | 446 | #565 | 0.23 |
| 2010 | 413 | #605 | 0.22 |
| 2009 | 392 | #641 | 0.20 |
| 2008 | 374 | #652 | 0.18 |
| 2007 | 346 | #688 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 370 | #635 | 0.18 |
| 2005 | 354 | #626 | 0.18 |
| 2004 | 349 | #615 | 0.18 |
| 2003 | 349 | #604 | 0.18 |
| 2002 | 386 | #570 | 0.20 |
| 2001 | 492 | #479 | 0.25 |
| 2000 | 432 | #519 | 0.22 |
| 1999 | 450 | #490 | 0.23 |
| 1998 | 395 | #525 | 0.21 |
| 1997 | 368 | #539 | 0.20 |
| 1996 | 309 | #582 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 301 | #593 | 0.16 |
| 1994 | 296 | #608 | 0.15 |
| 1993 | 236 | #669 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 239 | #670 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 251 | #645 | 0.12 |
| 1990 | 223 | #676 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 199 | #693 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 179 | #701 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 170 | #700 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 138 | #773 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 144 | #738 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 128 | #767 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 138 | #737 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 131 | #771 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 107 | #855 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 82 | #1,000 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 86 | #958 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 73 | #1,025 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,135 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 56 | #1,151 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 40 | #1,395 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 34 | #1,510 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 29 | #1,639 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 19 | #2,131 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 24 | #1,848 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 18 | #2,187 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,510 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 17 | #2,007 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,717 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,439 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,718 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,205 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,550 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,790 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,924 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 9 | #3,014 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,377 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,477 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,359 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,300 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,759 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,101 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 8 | #3,024 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,574 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,092 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,879 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,908 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,869 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,997 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,754 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mohammed a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mohammed has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 80 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mohammed: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mohammed, and how old are they?
15,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 16,225 Americans ever recorded as Mohammed. The median Mohammed alive today is 18 years old; half are between 10 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 48,042 people named Mohammed (89 women and girls, 47,953 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,458 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 68 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 521 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,040 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,910 |
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 Mohammed born?
The states with the most babies named Mohammed are New York, Michigan and Illinois, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 90 | #218 | 3.0× |
| Michigan | 47 | #210 | 2.2× |
| Illinois | 44 | #259 | 2.3× |
| Texas | 43 | #682 | 0.7× |
| California | 33 | #782 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 23 | #449 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 19 | #427 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 16 | #615 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 15 | #512 | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 13 | #746 | 0.6× |
Where Mohammed is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mohammed is most over-represented in New York: since 1922 it was given 3.0 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 Mohammed 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 57,874 babies since 1880, Mohammed is the third most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 486 of their 1,748 babies (28%), again the third 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 Mohammed
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 Mohammed and names like it
- Compare Mohammed and MohamedBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMohammed peaked in 2014.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mohammed since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Mohammed.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mohammed alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.