# Mohammad (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mohammad/  
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 | Arabic |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 17,193 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 17,183 / 10 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 26,805, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 5 | 11,526 |
| 1989 | 5 | 13,788 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 398 | 610 |
| 2012 | 424 | 597 |
| 2013 | 447 | 577 |
| 2014 | 468 | 590 |
| 2015 | 524 | 545 |
| 2016 | 451 | 597 |
| 2017 | 480 | 567 |
| 2018 | 444 | 608 |
| 2019 | 488 | 572 |
| 2020 | 397 | 664 |
| 2021 | 409 | 664 |
| 2022 | 538 | 556 |
| 2023 | 511 | 574 |
| 2024 | 475 | 601 |
| 2025 | 529 | 562 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,037 | 63 |
| 2012 | 1,125 | 60 |
| 2013 | 1,059 | 57 |
| 2014 | 1,116 | 56 |
| 2015 | 976 | 68 |
| 2016 | 948 | 68 |
| 2017 | 837 | 79 |
| 2018 | 880 | 71 |
| 2019 | 807 | 73 |
| 2020 | 751 | 74 |
| 2021 | 719 | 83 |
| 2022 | 844 | 67 |
| 2023 | 835 | 68 |
| 2024 | 986 | 53 |
| 2025 | 895 | 55 |

## People named Mohammad

- Mohammad Mosaddegh, former Prime Minister of Iran (1882–1967)
- Mohammad Najibullah, 4th General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
- Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, founder of the Qajar Dynasty (1796–1797)
- Mohammad Hatta, 1st vice president of Indonesia from 1945 to 1956 (1902–1980)
- Mohammad Mokhber, Acting President of Iran during 2024
- Mohammad Ayub Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (1879-1880)
- Mohammad Natsir, 5th Prime Minister of Indonesia from 1950 to 1951
- Mohammad Afzal Khan, Emir of Afghanistan from 1866 to 1867
- Mohammad Nabi, cricketer
- Mohammad Yunus Khalis, Afghan Mujahideen commander (1919–2006)
- Mohammad Mohammadullah, Bengali politician (1921–1999)
- Mohammad Yousef Kargar, Afghan footballer

## 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.