Muhammad
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From the Muslim male personal name Muhammad, based on Arabic muhammad ‘praiseworthy’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Muhammad 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.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 26(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 101
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 21as Mohammad
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 Muhammad 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 26 (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,900,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
11 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mohammad in BD Bangladesh, AF Afghanistan, JO Jordan, Mohamed in EG Egypt, MA Morocco, Muhammed in TR Türkiye and Muhamad in ID Indonesia.
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)
From the Muslim male personal name Muhammad, based on Arabic muhammad ‘praiseworthy’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Muhammad 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)
Muhammad is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, ‘praised’; name of the Prophet of Islam, also used widely as a given name.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, Islamic name adopted by Webb after conversion; also the Prophet Muhammad's name.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, The Prophet Muhammad; used with many Tanzanian spellings.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, OCR unclear; likely a feminine Arabic name variant
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, Qur'anic sura title; the Prophet Muhammad.
as a nameAfrican Muslim 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)
- Al-Battanib. 858TRnot in their usual nameIslamic astronomer and mathematician (died 929)
- Al-Birunib. 973AFnot in their usual name11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
- Bahadur Shah Zafarb. 1775INnot in their usual name18th and last Mughal Emperor from 1837 to 1857
- Idris I of Libyab. 1889LYnot in their usual nameKing of Libya from 1951 to 1969
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavib. 1919IRnot in their usual nameShah of Iran from 1941 to 1979
- Muḥammad Bāqir aṣ-Ṣadrb. 1935IQIraqi Shia cleric, philosopher, and the ideological founder of the Islamic Dawa Party (1935-1980)(55 yrs)
- Mohamed ElBaradeib. 1942EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian law scholar and diplomat, 4th Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
- Rashad al-Alimib. 1954YEnot in their usual nameChairman of the Presidential Leadership Council of Yemen since 2022
- Mohamed Ould Ghazouanib. 1956MRnot in their usual nameMauritanian retired general and politician; President of Mauritania (2019–present)
- Mohamed Salahb. 1992EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian association football player (born 1992)
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 125 sources across 66 countries.
Reference works 8
- 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
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Muhammad mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Muslim male personal name Muhammad, based on Arabic muhammad ‘praiseworthy’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Muhammad have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.9 million people named Muhammad in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled muhammad.
- How common is the name Muhammad?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 202,172 people named Muhammed in 2025, about 1 in 406 residents.
- How common is Muhammad compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Muhammad is the most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Muhammad?
- In the etymology graph, Mehmet, Mohammad and Mohammed are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Muhammad a male or female name?
- Muhammad 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 do you want to know about Muhammad?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/muhammadThe 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, “Muhammad” — the most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.