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Boy's name · #239 in the US (2025) · Trending
Muhammad is climbing: on the charts since 1929, it reached #239 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 1,500 boys given the name last year. Roughly 22,000 have carried it all-time.
In recent years, Muhammad ran about twice its national rate across the Northeast.
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 32 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Muhammad is especially popular in England & Wales, Finland (other-lang.), and Scotland.
#1 in England & Wales (2025) · #1 in Finland (other-lang.) (2025) · #4 in Scotland (2025) · #18 in Australia (VIC) (2025) · #21 in Australia (NSW) (2025) · #35 in Ireland (2025) · #94 in Norway (2025) · #103 in New Zealand (2025) · #105 in N. Ireland (2025) · #119 in Belgium (2025) · #132 in Austria (2025) · #151 in Sweden (2025) and 5 more.
Among 5,044 notable people named Muhammad:
Political leaders appear 2.9× more often than among typical names — e.g. Muhammad, Politician.
Together with its spelling variants Mohamed (#527), Mohammad (#562), and Mohammed (#595), Muhammad would rank around #118 with about 3,100 births last year — the newborns split about 48/19/17/16 across Muhammad, Mohamed, Mohammad, and Mohammed.
Similar names: Mohammad · Yusuf · Mustafa · Ali · Ahmad · Hassan
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