Meaning not yet researched.
Mohammed: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 486 in 2025. Its best rank was #479 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #479 in 2001; #595 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mohammed in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#595 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #479.
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Mohammed: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 486 boys in 2025. Peak: #479 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 566 (2014).
In 2025, 486 US boys were named Mohammed, making it the 595th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1 place from #596 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 481 boys named Mohammed in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #479, reached in 2001. The most boys given the name in a single year was 566, in 2014. For comparison, it was #511 in 2015 and #3,576 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mohammed in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1922 with 5 babies. In all, 16,225 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,689 babies named Mohammed.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,352 US boys were named Mohammed; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 486. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,515 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mohammed ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #210 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), Mohammad (17,193 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 Mohammed 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 29 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 47 | #210 | #240 |
| New York | 90 | #218 | #230 |
| Illinois | 44 | #259 | #297 |
| Virginia | 19 | #427 | #369 |
| Maryland | 12 | #428 | #567 |
| Pennsylvania | 23 | #449 | #453 |
| New Jersey | 15 | #512 | #376 |
| Colorado | 11 | #526 | #666 |
| Indiana | 12 | #569 | #614 |
| Ohio | 16 | #615 | #370 |
| Minnesota | 8 | #622 | #569 |
| Alabama | 7 | #663 | — |
| Texas | 43 | #682 | #620 |
| Georgia | 13 | #746 | #608 |
| North Carolina | 12 | #753 | #648 |
| Arizona | 8 | #755 | #765 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #762 | #434 |
| Missouri | 7 | #768 | #553 |
| California | 33 | #782 | #636 |
| Washington | 7 | #864 | #622 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #869 | #690 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,320 | #859 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 486 | #595 |
| 2024 | — | — | 481 | #596 |
| 2023 | — | — | 452 | #622 |
| 2022 | — | — | 368 | #717 |
| 2021 | — | — | 382 | #697 |
| 2020 | — | — | 418 | #643 |
| 2019 | — | — | 401 | #660 |
| 2018 | — | — | 425 | #628 |
| 2017 | — | — | 478 | #570 |
| 2016 | — | — | 461 | #592 |
| 2015 | — | — | 561 | #511 |
| 2014 | — | — | 566 | #499 |
| 2013 | — | — | 471 | #559 |
| 2012 | — | — | 467 | #557 |
| 2011 | — | — | 446 | #565 |
| 2010 | — | — | 413 | #605 |
| 2009 | — | — | 392 | #641 |
| 2008 | — | — | 374 | #652 |
| 2007 | — | — | 346 | #688 |
| 2006 | — | — | 370 | #635 |
| 2005 | — | — | 354 | #626 |
| 2004 | — | — | 349 | #615 |
| 2003 | — | — | 349 | #604 |
| 2002 | — | — | 386 | #570 |
| 2001 | — | — | 492 | #479 |
| 2000 | — | — | 432 | #519 |
| 1999 | — | — | 450 | #490 |
| 1998 | — | — | 395 | #525 |
| 1997 | — | — | 368 | #539 |
| 1996 | — | — | 309 | #582 |
| 1995 | — | — | 301 | #594 |
| 1994 | — | — | 296 | #609 |
| 1993 | — | — | 236 | #670 |
| 1992 | — | — | 239 | #672 |
| 1991 | — | — | 251 | #647 |
| 1990 | — | — | 223 | #678 |
| 1989 | — | — | 199 | #696 |
| 1988 | — | — | 179 | #701 |
| 1987 | — | — | 170 | #700 |
| 1986 | — | — | 138 | #773 |
| 1985 | — | — | 144 | #738 |
| 1984 | — | — | 128 | #767 |
| 1983 | — | — | 138 | #737 |
| 1982 | — | — | 131 | #771 |
| 1981 | — | — | 107 | #855 |
| 1980 | — | — | 82 | #1,000 |
| 1979 | — | — | 86 | #958 |
| 1978 | — | — | 73 | #1,025 |
| 1977 | — | — | 59 | #1,135 |
| 1976 | — | — | 56 | #1,151 |
| 1975 | — | — | 40 | #1,395 |
| 1974 | — | — | 34 | #1,510 |
| 1973 | — | — | 29 | #1,639 |
| 1972 | — | — | 19 | #2,131 |
| 1971 | — | — | 24 | #1,849 |
| 1970 | — | — | 18 | #2,188 |
| 1969 | — | — | 13 | #2,511 |
| 1968 | — | — | 17 | #2,008 |
| 1967 | — | — | 10 | #2,718 |
| 1966 | — | — | 7 | #3,440 |
| 1965 | — | — | 10 | #2,719 |
| 1964 | — | — | 8 | #3,206 |
| 1963 | — | — | 7 | #3,551 |
| 1962 | — | — | 10 | #2,791 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #3,925 |
| 1960 | — | — | 9 | #3,015 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,378 |
| 1958 | — | — | 7 | #3,478 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,360 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,302 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,760 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #3,102 |
| 1952 | — | — | 8 | #3,026 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,576 |
| 1946 | — | — | 7 | #3,093 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,880 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,909 |
| 1935 | — | — | 8 | #2,869 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #3,999 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,756 |
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).