Mohammed

Where Mohammed comes from

The dictionaries list Mohammed as a given name — a male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Muhammad — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1922
    First appearance
    #4,307 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2001
    Peak, #479
    492 babies named Mohammed — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Muhammad.
Namesakes

No widely known Mohammed turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.