Mohamad

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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. In Malay, recorded as alternative form of Muhammad.

rarermore common
  • 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)

≈8,900,000 named Muhammad, est.

#23 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

10 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
462 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 21 (inferred from the name graph)

Afghanistan, est., as Mohammad

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MuhammadLatin(measured from records)
МагомедCyrillic(measured from records)
መሐመድEthiopic(measured from records)
มูฮัมหมัดThai(measured from records)
মোহাম্মদBengali(measured from records)
ΜοχαμεντGreek(measured from records)
모하메드Hangul(measured from records)
ՄոհամեդArmenian(measured from records)
მოჰამმადGeorgian(measured from records)
మహమదTelugu(measured from records)

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.

Where Mohamad is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#1≈8,900,000 est.≈1 in 26—Muhammad270
EG Egypt#1≈3,700,000 est.≈1 in 28listedMohamed295
ID Indonesia#8≈2,600,000 est.≈1 in 101listedMuhamad236
BD Bangladesh#2≈2,400,000 est.≈1 in 695KMohammad214
AF Afghanistan#1≈1,700,000 est.≈1 in 21—Mohammad110
MA Morocco#1≈920,000 est.≈1 in 39—Mohamed216
JO Jordan#9≈280,000 est.≈1 in 39—Mohammad196
TR Türkiye#20202,172as Muhammed1 in 406202KMuhammed158

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mohamad is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, Pakistan, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Mòhãmàd, Mõhãmad, Mohãmãd, Mohàmàd, Möhãmåď

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Moḥamad, Mohamaḍ

  • Turkish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Lebanon, Malaysia

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek

    Also written Mőhâmãd, Möhamad

  • French given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Syria, Malaysia, Belgium

    Also written Môhämãd, Mohamàd, Mòhamad, Möhâmàd, Möhamad

  • Chinese given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Syria, United States, Iran

    Languages: Chinese, Burmese

    Also written Ḿōhāmad

  • Russian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Russia, Ukraine, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Мохамад, Mokhamad, Moḥamad, Mőĥåmad

58 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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)

500100015002000Muḥammad ibn Ismaeel al-Bukhārī, b. 810Mohamad Sabu, b. 1954Mohamad Hasan, b. 1956M. Nasir, b. 1957Mamat Khalid, b. 1963Jalani Sidek, b. 1963Khir Toyo, b. 1965Mohamad Ghaddar, b. 1984Mohamad Haidar, b. 1989Mohamad Kdouh, b. 1993

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 87 sources across 45 countries.

Reference works 6

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
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.

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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.

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