Meaning not yet researched.
Mohamed: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 568 in 2025. Its best rank was #428 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #428 in 2014; #527 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mohamed in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#527 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #428.
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Mohamed: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 568 boys in 2025. Peak: #428 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 712 (2014).
In 2025, 568 US boys were named Mohamed, making it the 527th most common boys’ name of the year, up 24 places from #551 in 2024. That is 27 more than the 541 boys named Mohamed in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #428, reached in 2014. That year also had the most boys given the name: 712. For comparison, it was #452 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mohamed in 69 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1943 with 6 babies. In all, 19,350 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,472 babies named Mohamed.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,814 US boys were named Mohamed; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 663. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,007 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mohamed ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #92 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Muhammad (21,962 babies since 1880), Mohammad (17,193 babies since 1880), Mohammed (16,225 babies since 1880) and Mohamad (3,662 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mouhamed, Mohamud and Mohmed are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mouhamed (976), Mohamud (257), Mohmed (95), Mohmmed (34), Mohmad (23).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Mohamed in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 27 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 69 | #92 | #92 |
| New York | 104 | #193 | #169 |
| Michigan | 42 | #245 | #262 |
| Ohio | 42 | #294 | #231 |
| Pennsylvania | 31 | #361 | #525 |
| New Jersey | 22 | #371 | #339 |
| Virginia | 21 | #386 | #487 |
| Nebraska | 6 | #418 | #484 |
| Iowa | 8 | #430 | #547 |
| Colorado | 12 | #489 | #468 |
| Maryland | 9 | #550 | #375 |
| Washington | 13 | #556 | #422 |
| Tennessee | 13 | #578 | #615 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #597 | #254 |
| Georgia | 16 | #644 | #584 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #645 | — |
| North Carolina | 13 | #705 | #810 |
| Illinois | 12 | #739 | #813 |
| Indiana | 8 | #756 | #989 |
| California | 32 | #792 | #759 |
| Texas | 28 | #908 | #713 |
| Missouri | 5 | #956 | #802 |
| Arizona | 5 | #998 | #708 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,435 | #693 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 568 | #527 |
| 2024 | — | — | 541 | #551 |
| 2023 | — | — | 543 | #543 |
| 2022 | — | — | 524 | #565 |
| 2021 | — | — | 552 | #533 |
| 2020 | — | — | 508 | #556 |
| 2019 | — | — | 614 | #477 |
| 2018 | — | — | 654 | #456 |
| 2017 | — | — | 663 | #456 |
| 2016 | — | — | 647 | #473 |
| 2015 | — | — | 671 | #452 |
| 2014 | — | — | 712 | #428 |
| 2013 | — | — | 645 | #446 |
| 2012 | — | — | 626 | #441 |
| 2011 | — | — | 635 | #429 |
| 2010 | — | — | 605 | #442 |
| 2009 | — | — | 649 | #433 |
| 2008 | — | — | 535 | #508 |
| 2007 | — | — | 590 | #463 |
| 2006 | — | — | 573 | #469 |
| 2005 | — | — | 524 | #478 |
| 2004 | — | — | 484 | #506 |
| 2003 | — | — | 480 | #507 |
| 2002 | — | — | 453 | #503 |
| 2001 | — | — | 541 | #449 |
| 2000 | — | — | 498 | #472 |
| 1999 | — | — | 432 | #500 |
| 1998 | — | — | 430 | #501 |
| 1997 | — | — | 346 | #556 |
| 1996 | — | — | 285 | #614 |
| 1995 | — | — | 282 | #612 |
| 1994 | — | — | 237 | #671 |
| 1993 | — | — | 215 | #707 |
| 1992 | — | — | 200 | #733 |
| 1991 | — | — | 202 | #714 |
| 1990 | — | — | 193 | #737 |
| 1989 | — | — | 140 | #851 |
| 1988 | — | — | 116 | #888 |
| 1987 | — | — | 122 | #849 |
| 1986 | — | — | 132 | #791 |
| 1985 | — | — | 116 | #837 |
| 1984 | — | — | 87 | #948 |
| 1983 | — | — | 90 | #935 |
| 1982 | — | — | 103 | #881 |
| 1981 | — | — | 91 | #944 |
| 1980 | — | — | 73 | #1,061 |
| 1979 | — | — | 71 | #1,052 |
| 1978 | — | — | 58 | #1,174 |
| 1977 | — | — | 57 | #1,171 |
| 1976 | — | — | 33 | #1,636 |
| 1975 | — | — | 30 | #1,689 |
| 1974 | — | — | 17 | #2,428 |
| 1973 | — | — | 14 | #2,675 |
| 1972 | — | — | 14 | #2,621 |
| 1971 | — | — | 18 | #2,251 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,564 |
| 1969 | — | — | 10 | #2,997 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,992 |
| 1967 | — | — | 17 | #1,953 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,801 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,803 |
| 1964 | — | — | 8 | #3,205 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,240 |
| 1962 | — | — | 9 | #2,986 |
| 1961 | — | — | 9 | #3,036 |
| 1960 | — | — | 8 | #3,249 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,326 |
| 1952 | — | — | 7 | #3,287 |
| 1943 | — | — | 6 | #3,444 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).