Mahamed

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Uncommon spelling of Muhammad

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

Mahamed is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • EGEgypt≈1 in 7.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • LYLibya≈1 in 2.8K
  • SESweden1 in 5.2K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)

≈15,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
115 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Libya, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MahamedLatin(measured from records)
მაჰამედGeorgian(measured from records)

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)

Uncommon spelling of Muhammad.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mahamed 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 Mahamed is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ET Ethiopia—≈15,000 est.≈1 in 7.2K—Mahamed20
EG Egypt#608≈15,000 est.≈1 in 7.2K—Mahamed56
LY Libya#191≈2,500 est.≈1 in 2.8K—Mahamed10
SE Sweden—1,9761 in 5.2K2KMahamed28
KE Kenya—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 39K—Mahamed20
FI Finland—6791 in 8.2K599—19

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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

Mahamed is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Måhamed, Mẳhẳměd

  • Swedish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands

    Languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Mähåmëd, Máháméd

  • French given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Morocco, Belgium

    Also written M'Ahamed, Mahamèd, Màhàmed, Mâhämęd, Màhàméd

  • Spanish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Máhãmêd, Mąĥặmêd, Mäĥámêd, Mâhãmëd, Mähämêd

  • Ukrainian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Türkiye

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Mäĥâmëď

47 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)

Mahamed 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.

  • In Swedish, Se Mohammad.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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)

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 54 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Mahamed
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—451#3,762
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—352—

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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

What does the name Mahamed mean, and where does it come from?
Uncommon spelling of Muhammad. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Mahamed have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Mahamed in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahamed.
Is Mahamed a male or female name?
Mahamed 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.
How common is the name Mahamed?
In Sweden, the national register counted 1,976 people named Mahamed, about 1 in 5.2 thousand residents.
How common is Mahamed compared with other names?
In Libya, Mahamed is the 191st most common given name of 8,449 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, “Mahamed” — the 191st most common given name in Libya. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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