Muhammed
Muhammed was given to 67 boys in 2025, #2,159 among boys’ names; 2,600 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,550 Americans named Muhammed 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 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Muhammed by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Muhammed mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Muhammed 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 Muhammed?
#2,159 among boys’ names, 2025
Muhammed fell from #1,700 in 2015 to #2,159 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 48.0 to 39.2 per million.
106 babies in 2014, the peak
Muhammed peaked in 2014, when 106 boys were given it, #1,521 among boys’ names. The 67 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67 | #2,159 | 39.2 |
| 2024 | 102 | #1,658 | 59.2 |
| 2023 | 96 | #1,733 | 56.1 |
| 2022 | 74 | #2,054 | 42.4 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,185 | 37.2 |
| 2020 | 74 | #1,958 | 42.9 |
| 2019 | 73 | #2,012 | 40.7 |
| 2018 | 76 | #1,951 | 41.8 |
| 2017 | 80 | #1,852 | 43.2 |
| 2016 | 80 | #1,871 | 42.2 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 92 | #1,700 | 48.0 |
| 2014 | 106 | #1,521 | 55.2 |
| 2013 | 84 | #1,748 | 44.4 |
| 2012 | 89 | #1,704 | 46.9 |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,097 | 33.7 |
| 2010 | 69 | #1,995 | 36.0 |
| 2009 | 63 | #2,155 | 31.8 |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,136 | 31.4 |
| 2007 | 54 | #2,402 | 26.0 |
| 2006 | 71 | #1,908 | 34.5 |
| 2005 | 67 | #1,899 | 33.5 |
| 2004 | 68 | #1,822 | 34.3 |
| 2003 | 48 | #2,253 | 24.3 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,111 | 26.3 |
| 2001 | 57 | #1,925 | 29.3 |
| 2000 | 83 | #1,479 | 42.3 |
| 1999 | 52 | #1,891 | 27.1 |
| 1998 | 51 | #1,914 | 26.7 |
| 1997 | 53 | #1,803 | 28.1 |
| 1996 | 56 | #1,697 | 29.6 |
| 1995 | 53 | #1,695 | 27.8 |
| 1994 | 45 | #1,879 | 23.3 |
| 1993 | 29 | #2,551 | 14.8 |
| 1992 | 24 | #2,893 | 12.0 |
| 1991 | 31 | #2,325 | 15.3 |
| 1990 | 23 | #2,833 | 11.2 |
| 1989 | 28 | #2,389 | 14.0 |
| 1988 | 19 | #2,916 | 9.9 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,792 | 10.2 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,362 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,168 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,905 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,177 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 25 | #2,149 | 13.8 |
| 1981 | 18 | #2,642 | 10.0 |
| 1980 | 18 | #2,692 | 10.1 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,496 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,170 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,519 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 16 | #2,671 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 13 | #3,020 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,746 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,239 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,102 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Muhammed a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Muhammed has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Muhammed: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Muhammed, and how old are they?
2,550 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,600 Americans ever recorded as Muhammed. The median Muhammed alive today is 16 years old; half are between 9 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 3,998 people named Muhammed (7 women and girls, 3,991 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,105 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 93 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 406 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 988 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,060 |
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 Muhammed born?
The states with the most babies named Muhammed are New York, Washington and Texas, with 74% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 12 | #1,031 | 3.1× |
| Washington | 9 | #715 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,222 | 0.3× |
| California | 5 | #2,687 | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 5 | #883 | 0.8× |
Where Muhammed is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Muhammed is most over-represented in New York: since 1970 it was given 3.1 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 Muhammed 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 25,496 babies since 1880, Muhammed is the second most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 67 of their 1,560 babies (4.3%), 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 Muhammed
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 Muhammed and names like it
- Compare Muhammed and MuhammadBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMuhammed peaked in 2014.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Muhammed since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Muhammed.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Muhammed alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.