Muhammed

Where Muhammed comes from

The dictionaries list Muhammed 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.

Along the way
  1. 1970
    First appearance
    #3,836 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2000
    Peak, #1,479
    83 babies named Muhammed — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Muhammad.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Muhammed hasn't yet.

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.