Mohammad
Last seen for girls in 1989 at #12,362 · #561 for boys in 2025, 529 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2000 · 510 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 17,183since 1964
Mohammad over time
Rank among boys' names. Mohammad has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #561 | 529 | |
| 2024 | — | #600 | 475 | |
| 2023 | — | #573 | 511 | |
| 2022 | — | #555 | 538 | |
| 2021 | — | #664 | 409 | |
| 2020 | — | #663 | 397 | |
| 2019 | — | #571 | 488 | |
| 2018 | — | #607 | 444 | |
| 2017 | — | #566 | 480 | |
| 2016 | — | #596 | 451 | |
| 2015 | — | #545 | 524 | |
| 2014 | — | #589 | 468 | |
| 2013 | — | #574 | 447 | |
| 2012 | — | #597 | 424 | |
| 2011 | — | #609 | 398 | |
| 2010 | — | #651 | 370 | |
| 2009 | — | #610 | 420 | |
| 2008 | — | #688 | 348 | |
| 2007 | — | #627 | 388 | |
| 2006 | — | #596 | 413 | |
| 2005 | — | #634 | 345 | |
| 2004 | — | #623 | 340 | |
| 2003 | — | #566 | 395 | |
| 2002 | — | #531 | 423 | |
| 2001 | — | #488 | 470 | |
| 2000 | — | #465 | 510 | |
| 1999 | — | #504 | 426 | |
| 1998 | — | #485 | 450 | |
| 1997 | — | #512 | 398 | |
| 1996 | — | #511 | 398 | |
| 1995 | — | #543 | 350 | |
| 1994 | — | #579 | 318 | |
| 1993 | — | #550 | 338 | |
| 1992 | — | #577 | 311 | |
| 1991 | — | #562 | 326 | |
| 1990 | — | #600 | 279 | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #623 | 253 |
| 1988 | — | #614 | 239 | |
| 1987 | — | #612 | 219 | |
| 1986 | — | #680 | 176 | |
| 1985 | — | #700 | 158 | |
| 1984 | — | #692 | 158 | |
| 1983 | — | #714 | 145 | |
| 1982 | — | #766 | 131 | |
| 1981 | — | #804 | 119 | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | #832 | 112 |
| 1979 | — | #831 | 110 | |
| 1978 | — | #996 | 75 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,221 | 52 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,179 | 53 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,704 | 29 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,409 | 37 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,696 | 27 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,020 | 20 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,052 | 20 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,293 | 16 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,595 | 7 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,576 | 11 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,966 | 5 | |
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| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,282 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Mohammad! It came in at #3,282, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1965–1967, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Mohammad is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#653 · 1 in 9,385
- Illinois#707 · 1 in 11,341
- New York#822 · 1 in 13,782
Best ever in a state: #185 in New York, 2000.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #653 | 18 | 1 in 9,385 |
| Illinois | #707 | 7 | 1 in 11,341 |
| New York | #822 | 8 | 1 in 13,782 |
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See more about Mohammad
- 39 spots since 2024 (#600 → #561)
- 102 spots since 2020 (#663 → #561)
- 16 spots since 2015 (#545 → #561)
- Biggest jump: 225 spots in 1978 (#1,221 → #996)
- Biggest drop: 92 spots in 2020 (#571 → #663)
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 2000 at #465 (510 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 48 yrs · run 1978–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,229 boys born in 2025 were named Mohammad (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #465 in 2000, was only 1 in 3,851 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.2% of all boys named Mohammad (4,494) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 35 | #2,576 (1968) | #3,470 |
| 1970s | 439 | #831 (1979) | #1,540 |
| 1980s | 1,710 | #612 (1987) | #704 |
| 1990s | 3,594 | #485 (1998) | #542 |
| 2000s | 4,052 | #465 (2000) | #583 |
| 2010s | 4,494 | #545 (2015) | #591 |
| 2020s | 2,859 | #555 (2022) | #603 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Mohammad in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 21,891 of them was named Mohammad, which outranked 85.3% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #989Gus76
- #989Kermit76
- #989Tremaine76
- #996Mohammad75
- #996Amit75
- #996Arnulfo75
- #996Bennett75
- #1,005Barton74
- #1,005Eddy74
- #1,005Jefferey74
Tied with 8 names at #996; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.