Mohamed is an Arabic name meaning “praiseworthy”, derived from the root “hamida” meaning “to praise”. It can also be spelled Muhammed, Muhamad, Mohammad, or Muhammad, among others.
Mohamed is a male first name.
The name Mohamed isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Mohamed ranks 449. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 4 were named Mohamed. In the entire USA, approximately 15,856 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Mohamed. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
Mohamed is an Arabic name meaning “praiseworthy”, derived from the root “hamida” meaning “to praise”. It can also be spelled Muhammed, Muhamad, Mohammad, or Muhammad, among others.
This spelling is... the usual Swahili form, spoken in East Africa.
Mohamed is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Mohamed cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #412 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2011. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Mohamed, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Mohamed seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Mohamed was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
524 babies were named Mohamed in 2022 - that's 1 in 308,065 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Mohamed ranked 531 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With seven letters, the name Mohamed has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Mohamed and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Mohamed, you can simply say:
Mouse
Orange
Hat
Apple
Mouse
Elephant
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Mohamed
Mohamed
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Mohamed sounds like this: