Meaning not yet researched.
Mohammad: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 529 in 2025. Its best rank was #465 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #465 in 2000; #562 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mohammad in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#562 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #465.
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Mohammad: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 529 boys in 2025. Peak: #465 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 538 (2022).
In 2025, 529 US boys were named Mohammad, making it the 562nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 39 places from #601 in 2024. That is 54 more than the 475 boys named Mohammad in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #465, reached in 2000. The most boys given the name in a single year was 538, in 2022. For comparison, it was #545 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mohammad in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 7 babies. In all, 17,193 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,494 babies named Mohammad.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,722 US boys were named Mohammad; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 538. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,229 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mohammad ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #271 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Muhammad (21,962 babies since 1880), Mohamed (19,350 babies since 1880), Mohammed (16,225 babies since 1880) and Mohamad (3,662 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Mohammad 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 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 70 | #271 | #199 |
| Illinois | 38 | #288 | #346 |
| Maryland | 18 | #312 | #376 |
| Virginia | 27 | #313 | #314 |
| Michigan | 27 | #337 | #338 |
| New Jersey | 22 | #372 | #389 |
| Washington | 20 | #376 | #681 |
| California | 83 | #398 | #526 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #429 | — |
| Ohio | 24 | #448 | #550 |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #567 | #485 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #598 | #602 |
| Texas | 51 | #607 | #512 |
| Oregon | 5 | #679 | — |
| North Carolina | 13 | #706 | #958 |
| Florida | 22 | #718 | #668 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #740 | #406 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #756 | — |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #771 | — |
| Indiana | 7 | #820 | — |
| Georgia | 11 | #829 | #729 |
| Missouri | 6 | #843 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #901 | #976 |
| Colorado | 5 | #922 | #864 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,139 | #1,009 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 529 | #562 |
| 2024 | — | — | 475 | #601 |
| 2023 | — | — | 511 | #574 |
| 2022 | — | — | 538 | #556 |
| 2021 | — | — | 409 | #664 |
| 2020 | — | — | 397 | #664 |
| 2019 | — | — | 488 | #572 |
| 2018 | — | — | 444 | #608 |
| 2017 | — | — | 480 | #567 |
| 2016 | — | — | 451 | #597 |
| 2015 | — | — | 524 | #545 |
| 2014 | — | — | 468 | #590 |
| 2013 | — | — | 447 | #577 |
| 2012 | — | — | 424 | #597 |
| 2011 | — | — | 398 | #610 |
| 2010 | — | — | 370 | #652 |
| 2009 | — | — | 420 | #610 |
| 2008 | — | — | 348 | #689 |
| 2007 | — | — | 388 | #628 |
| 2006 | — | — | 413 | #596 |
| 2005 | — | — | 345 | #635 |
| 2004 | — | — | 340 | #623 |
| 2003 | — | — | 395 | #566 |
| 2002 | — | — | 423 | #532 |
| 2001 | — | — | 470 | #489 |
| 2000 | — | — | 510 | #465 |
| 1999 | — | — | 426 | #504 |
| 1998 | — | — | 450 | #486 |
| 1997 | — | — | 398 | #512 |
| 1996 | — | — | 398 | #511 |
| 1995 | — | — | 350 | #545 |
| 1994 | — | — | 318 | #581 |
| 1993 | — | — | 338 | #550 |
| 1992 | — | — | 311 | #578 |
| 1991 | — | — | 326 | #562 |
| 1990 | — | — | 279 | #600 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,788 | 253 | #624 |
| 1988 | — | — | 239 | #615 |
| 1987 | — | — | 219 | #613 |
| 1986 | — | — | 176 | #680 |
| 1985 | — | — | 158 | #700 |
| 1984 | — | — | 158 | #695 |
| 1983 | — | — | 145 | #718 |
| 1982 | — | — | 131 | #770 |
| 1981 | — | — | 119 | #807 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,526 | 112 | #834 |
| 1979 | — | — | 110 | #832 |
| 1978 | — | — | 75 | #1,001 |
| 1977 | — | — | 52 | #1,235 |
| 1976 | — | — | 53 | #1,187 |
| 1975 | — | — | 29 | #1,739 |
| 1974 | — | — | 37 | #1,434 |
| 1973 | — | — | 27 | #1,726 |
| 1972 | — | — | 20 | #2,057 |
| 1971 | — | — | 20 | #2,096 |
| 1970 | — | — | 16 | #2,374 |
| 1969 | — | — | 7 | #3,819 |
| 1968 | — | — | 11 | #2,685 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,357 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,263 |
| 1964 | — | — | 7 | #3,504 |
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).