# Mehmed (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mehmed/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Turkish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 83 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 83 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 76, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish محمد (Mehmed, Mehmet), from Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad). Doublet of Muhammad.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | 11,719 |
| 2003 | 6 | 10,435 |
| 2013 | 6 | 11,683 |
| 2014 | 7 | 10,357 |
| 2015 | 6 | 11,630 |
| 2019 | 7 | 10,451 |
| 2020 | 10 | 7,881 |
| 2021 | 5 | 13,414 |
| 2022 | 11 | 7,576 |
| 2023 | 5 | 13,488 |
| 2025 | 15 | 6,046 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 4 | 3,987 |
| 2014 | 6 | 2,964 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3,996 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3,959 |
| 2019 | 5 | 3,411 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |
| 2021 | 7 | 2,730 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,001 |
| 2023 | 12 | 1,906 |
| 2024 | 10 | 2,263 |
| 2025 | 16 | 1,613 |

## People named Mehmed

- Mehmed VI, 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1918–1922)
- Mehmed I, fifth Ottoman Sultan (1413–1421)
- Mehmed IV, 19th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1648–1687)
- Mehmed V, 35th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1909–1918)
- Köprülü Mehmed Paşa, Albanian Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1580-1661)
- Mehmed Baždarević, Bosnian football player and manager (born 1960)
- Sedefkar Mehmed Ağa, architect of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul
- Mehmed Spaho, Bosniak politician (1883-1939)
- Mehmed Alispahić, Bosnia and Herzegovina association football player
- Mehmed Alajbegović, Croatian Muslim Ustasha leader
- Mehmed Handžić, Bosniak imam
- Mehmed Alagić, general (1947-2003)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.