Muhamed
Masculine · “Arabic "praised”
A single consonant maps a community. Muhammad with two m letters is the standard Arabic transliteration; Muhamed with one is the Bosnian spelling, and its appearance in American records tracks Bosniak immigration, most of it arriving after 1992.
How old is the name Muhamed?
Muhamed first appears in US birth records in 1977 — 48 years ago. The typical Muhamed alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 600 people named Muhamed are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Muhamed most popular?
Muhamed peaked in 2002, reaching #3259 nationally. Today it ranks #7679, 4,420 places below that high. See the whole 2002 chart.
Where it comes from
From h-m-d to Muhamed
The story of Muhamed
Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian spelling is strictly phonemic and has no doubled consonants, so Arabic names were adapted accordingly when Islam took hold in Bosnia under Ottoman rule: Muhamed, Mustafa, Hasan, Husein, Amir. The Bosniak name stock is therefore recognizably Arabic and recognizably South Slavic in spelling at the same time, and the combination is diagnostic. Bosnian immigration to the United States rose sharply during and after the war of 1992 to 1995, with large communities settling in St Louis, Chicago and Utica. The American figures for the Muhamed spelling peak in 2002, which fits that arrival precisely.
Meaning
Arabic "praised, praiseworthy"
From the root h-m-d, to praise; Muhammad is the passive participle of the intensive form, meaning one who is much praised. It is generally reported to be the most common given name in the world. Muhamed with a single m is the standard Bosnian spelling, reflecting Bosnian orthography, which does not use doubled consonants; Mehmet is the Turkish form and Mohammed a common English transliteration.
How the name formed
- h-m-d
- Muhammad
- Muhamed
Related forms: Muhamed · محمد · Mehmet · Mohammed
Pronouncing Muhamed
MOO-hah-med
Three syllables, stress on the first in Bosnian. Arabic stresses the second, mu-HAM-mad, and doubles the m audibly, which Bosnian does not.
Nicknames for Muhamed
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1977
- Most boys named
- 201628 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3259reached in 2002
- Change vs 2024
- −9.1%10 in 2025, from 11
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Muhamed in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Muhamed in Bosnian — same name
- محمد in Arabic — transliteration
- Mehmet in Turkish — same name
- Mohammed in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Minnesota.
Muhameds among us
people named Muhamed are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 170,808 born in 2025 was named Muhamed
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Muhamed
- #7679
- Muhamed on the 2025 chart
- #851
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Muhamed went to 10 boys in 2025, but Muhammed is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 77, which makes it the 851st most-given boys’ name of the year — 6,828 places above the chart.
- Muhammed67
- Muhamed10
About 1 boy in 22,183 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 170,808 for Muhamed itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Bright test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Muhamed's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Bright climbed just as high around 1924, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Bright's path sketches the road Muhamed is walking now.
Muhamed sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Muhamed beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Muhamed in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled and entirely positive.
- It is the most widely borne given name in the world.
- Mo is an immediate short form in English-speaking countries.
- Mohammed and Muhammad are the commoner American spellings.
- The single m marks it as specifically Bosnian.
- It carries the most explicit religious association of any name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Muhameds are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Muhamed are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Muhamed?
- Muhamed is one of 2 recorded spellings. Muhammed is the more common one — 67 births in 2025 against 10 for Muhamed.
- How popular is the name Muhamed in 2025?
- Muhamed ranks #7679 among US boy names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Muhamed?
- About 1 in every 170,808 US boys born in 2025 was named Muhamed — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Muhamed with classmates?
- Muhamed will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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