Muhammad

“Praised, praiseworthy” — Arabic origin

Boy's name · #239 in the US (2025) · Trending

Muhammad is climbing: on the charts since 1929, it reached #239 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 1,500 boys given the name last year. Roughly 22,000 have carried it all-time. Across the Northeast it runs about twice its national rate. Together with its spelling variants Mohamed (#527), Mohammad (#562), and Mohammed (#595), Muhammad would rank around #118 with about 3,100 births last year — the newborns split about 48/19/17/16 across Muhammad, Mohamed, Mohammad, and Mohammed.

Around the world: #1 in Finland (other-lang.) (2025) · #1 in England & Wales (2025) · #4 in Scotland (2025) · #18 in Australia (VIC) (2025) · #21 in Australia (NSW) (2025).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 32 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Muhammads

Muhammad — Arabian political leader and the founder of Islam (c. 570–632)
Muhammad Ali — American boxer (1942–2016)
Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi — 9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
Muhammad Yunus — Bangladeshi banker, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and the former Chief Adviser of Bangladesh
Muhammad Iqbal — British-Indian Islamic philosopher, poet and politician (1877-1938)

In stories & tradition

Muhammad Ali — Ali

What Muhammads become

Among 5,045 notable people named Muhammad:

Political leaders appear 2.9× more often than among typical names — e.g. Muhammad, Arabian political leader and the founder of Islam (c. 570–632).

Similar names: Mohammad · Yusuf · Mustafa · Ali · Kairo · Ahmad

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