Muhamed
Muhamed was given to 10 boys in 2025, #8,041 among boys’ names; 618 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Muhamed by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Muhamed mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Muhamed 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 Muhamed?
#8,041 among boys’ names, 2025
Muhamed fell from #5,002 in 2015 to #8,041 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.9 to 5.9 per million.
28 babies in 2016, the peak
Muhamed peaked in 2016, when 28 boys were given it, #3,858 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #8,041 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,588 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,838 | 9.4 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,157 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,879 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,346 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 10 | #8,021 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,227 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 22 | #4,547 | 11.9 |
| 2016 | 28 | #3,858 | 14.8 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #5,002 | 9.9 |
| 2014 | 23 | #4,347 | 12.0 |
| 2013 | 27 | #3,822 | 14.3 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,183 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,611 | 11.1 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,172 | 9.4 |
| 2009 | 27 | #3,886 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,967 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 22 | #4,458 | 10.6 |
| 2006 | 24 | #4,063 | 11.7 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,762 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,718 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,188 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 27 | #3,311 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,902 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,491 | 12.2 |
| 1999 | 18 | #4,098 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 18 | #3,955 | 9.4 |
| 1997 | 20 | #3,544 | 10.6 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,913 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,786 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 12 | #5,016 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 9 | #6,070 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,495 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,923 | 3.0 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,705 | 3.5 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,757 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,244 | 2.7 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,522 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Muhamed a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Muhamed has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Muhamed: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Muhamed, and how old are they?
An estimated 608 Americans named Muhamed and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,300 people named Muhamed (4 women and girls, 1,296 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 527 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 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 spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 25,496 babies since 1880, Muhamed is the third most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 1,560 babies (<1%), 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 Muhamed
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 Muhamed and names like it
- Compare Muhamed and MuhammadBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMuhamed peaked in 2016.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Muhamed since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Muhamed.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Muhamed alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.