Mohamad
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Malay: alternative form of Muhammad
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məˈhɑməd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mohamad is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the most common given name.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 21as Mohammad(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 26as Muhammad
- EGEgypt≈1 in 28as Mohamed
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mohamad itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- #23 (measured from records)
- 10 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 462 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21 (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,900,000 named Muhammad, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est., as Mohammad
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
10 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mohammad in BD Bangladesh, AF Afghanistan, JO Jordan, Mohamed in EG Egypt, MA Morocco, Muhammad in PK Pakistan and Muhammed in TR Türkiye.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Muhammad.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mohamad is read(measured from records)
Mohamad is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Malay35%
alternative form of Muhammad
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic26%
medicine man
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- English9.7%
A male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Muhammad.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi5.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mohamad in Hindi.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mohamad counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #1 | ≈8,900,000 est. | ≈1 in 26 | — | Muhammad | 270 |
| EG Egypt | #1 | ≈3,700,000 est. | ≈1 in 28 | listed | Mohamed | 295 |
| ID Indonesia | #8 | ≈2,600,000 est. | ≈1 in 101 | listed | Muhamad | 236 |
| BD Bangladesh | #2 | ≈2,400,000 est. | ≈1 in 69 | 5K | Mohammad | 214 |
| AF Afghanistan | #1 | ≈1,700,000 est. | ≈1 in 21 | — | Mohammad | 110 |
| MA Morocco | #1 | ≈920,000 est. | ≈1 in 39 | — | Mohamed | 216 |
| JO Jordan | #9 | ≈280,000 est. | ≈1 in 39 | — | Mohammad | 196 |
| TR Türkiye | #20 | 202,172as Muhammed | 1 in 406 | 202K | Muhammed | 158 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; This page provides data on the frequency and ranking of names in Bangladesh, published by the Bangladesh Bureau of Stati. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mohamad is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Muslim; variant of Muhammad.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Muḥammad ibn Ismaeel al-Bukhārīb. 810UZPersian Islamic scholar (810-870)
- Mohamad Sabub. 1954MYMalaysian politician
- Mohamad Hasanb. 1956MYMalaysian politician
- M. Nasirb. 1957MYnot in their usual nameSingaporean-Malaysian poet, singer, songwriter, composer, producer, actor and director (born 1957)
- Mamat Khalidb. 1963MYnot in their usual nameMalaysian film director (1963–2021)
- Jalani Sidekb. 1963MYnot in their usual namebadminton player
- Khir Toyob. 1965MYnot in their usual nameMalaysian politician
- Mohamad Ghaddarb. 1984LBLebanese footballer
- Mohamad Haidarb. 1989LBLebanese soccer player
- Mohamad Kdouhb. 1993LBLebanese footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 87 sources across 45 countries.
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Mohamad come from?
- A male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Muhammad. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Mohamad mean?
- In Malay, alternative form of Muhammad
- How do you pronounce Mohamad?
- A machine transcription gives /məˈhɑməd/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Mohamad a male or female name?
- Mohamad is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Mohamad?
- In the etymology graph, Mamadou, Mahamadou and Mamadu are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Mohamad have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.9 million people named Muhammad in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mohamad?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 202,172 people named Muhammed in 2025, about 1 in 406 residents.
- How common is Mohamad compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Mohamad is the most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mohamad?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mohamadThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mohamad” — the most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.